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Dmitriy Zavilgelsky
Dmitriy Zavilgelsky
Career
Окончил Высшие курсы сценаристов и режиссёров (мастерскую Л.Гуревича). В качестве автора сценария и режиссёра снял более 30 документальных фильмов для государственных телеканалов, Министерства культуры, частных и федеральных киностудий.
Date of birth
11.05.1973
Filmography
20
Portrait of a scientist chemist Professor Alexei Bobrovsky.
Worlds of Professor Bobrovsky
3
2022
39 min
This is the story of a man who made the history of Mankind, being "on the other side of the window" from those in power. The film was based on Boris Altshuler's book "Sakharov and Power. On the other side of the window"; drawings by Andrey Sakharov animated by Dmitry Geller; memories of friends; rare archival footage and previously unpublished declassified documents.
Andrei Sakharov. On the other side of the window
9
2021
72 min
Ornithologist Vadim Gavrilov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, specialist in bird ecology, brought art to life in the form of photography. Vadim started taking pictures of birds, first just for fun, then for scientific reports, and now his photographs have become not only an applied tool for researchers and students, but also interested many people.
Birder
3
2021
39 min
The film is dedicated to the history of the first in the history of the USSR foreign expedition of Soviet archaeologists to Egypt in 1961-1963. Amateur photo and film material, field diaries, as well as an unpublished manuscript of one of its participants found in personal and scientific archives, immerses us in the atmosphere of unique excavations, hopes, failures and discoveries of scientists.
Chronicles of the Nubian Expedition
3
2021
60 min
Inspired by the ideas of the outstanding Russian thinker of the beginning of the last century Alexander Vasilyevich Chayanov the film crew sets off in search of new "rural utopias", modern models of rural development. Alexander Mikhailovich Nikulin, a social anthropologist, head of the Chayanov Center for Agrarian Research, acts as a guide in this fascinating journey through modern rural Russia. In the film the viewer will visit different parts of Russia and get acquainted not only with traditional farmers and peasants, but also see crocodile and snail farms unusual for a Russian person, as well as new forms of rural development.
In search of rural utopias
3
2021
67 min
Former rescuers organize an extreme expedition called "Find a Fallen Star" to feel the high of their work again and share it with friends.
Find a fallen star
3
2021
27 min
In the 60s of the last century, Soviet archaeologists discovered a center of Paleolithic culture in the Southern Urals. The rock paintings of the Kapova Cave have become a sensation in the world of science. There are very few places where evidence of the life and work of ancient people has been preserved. Thanks to the lighting equipment of the film crew of the popular science film, many new drawings were discovered at that time. And now, 50 years later, modern documentary filmmakers, together with the head of research, associate professor of Moscow State University, Doctor of Science Vladislav Zhitenev, are making new discoveries, and in the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theater, young choreographer Rinat Abushakhmanov and composer Nikolai Popov are creating a unique production, a one-act popular science ballet "On what are the stones silent about" according to real research by archaeologists.
Shulgan-Tash
8
2021
39 min
How is science done? What is behind the scenes of popular lectures and speeches? The film shows three days in the life of the famous popularizer of science Stanislav Drobyshevsky. The film crew visited with him at the archaeological excavations in the village of Khotylevo, Bryansk region, at the Moscow State University. Lomonosov at the Department of Anthropology and at the conference "Scientists against myths".
Anthropologist Drobyshevsky Day
7
2020
44 min
How do new technologies affect the development of cinematography? Good or bad? Is it true that film has a magical effect on the viewer? The authors of the film, together with psychologists from the Higher School of Economics and Moscow State University. Lomonosov are organizing an unusual experiment, which should prove the difference between the audience's perception of a film screening and from a digital medium.
Magical Obturator
8
2019
44 min
The protagonist of the film, Alexander Shaenko, with a group of like-minded people, created the first satellite in Russia, made by amateur hands, outside of any state structures. The satellite was launched into space, but, unfortunately, could not enter the desired orbit due to the failure of the carrier rocket. But this did not stop our enthusiasts. Now they are busy developing a closed biosphere based on microalgae to support long-range space flights. So far, not everything is working out, but they continue to work.
Amateurs in Space
3
2019
39 min
New technologies come into our lives sometimes in the most unexpected ways. A group of developers of intelligent machines, led by the hero of the film, Sergei Markov, creates robots to call debtors on bank loans. One day they come up with the idea to teach the robot to speak in the voice of a famous artist who died several decades ago.
Abyss. Robotic Debt Collector
3
2018
39 min
Using the Dissernet social movement as an example, we will tell you how our actions are connected with our genes, and why some become crooks, while others fight these crooks.
Dissernet: the evolution of altruism
7
2017
50 min
A film about the fate of the scientist Boris Grigoryevich Mirkin, the legend of Soviet computer science, one of the founders of "artificial intelligence". In the 90s, he left Russia at the insistence of his family, his wife was afraid of impending chaos and anti-Semitism. He has taught at European and American universities. However, at the age of 67, he decided to return to Russia, alone, without a family, because here "they both speak and think in Russian." Today he teaches at the Higher School of Economics, raises young cadres, believes that progress cannot be stopped, that artificial intelligence will definitely be created.
Luck Meter
3
2017
39 min
Popular science film about modern research in the field of neurophysiology.
Fucking Brain
8
2017
66 min
The real Mysteries of Existence, which science investigates, are not easily given into hands. Sometimes the search takes not years, but decades, sometimes even the whole life of a scientist. And the result is not guaranteed. The protagonists of the film are well-known physicists Valentin Rudenko, Andrey Rostovtsev and Sergey Troitsky, who are searching for such waves and particles, the discovery of which can change our understanding of the world seriously and globally. But no one knows how much longer it will take to find them.
Waiting for waves and particles
8
2015
78 min
Author's family history. We can say that this is a film about my grandfather. It can be said that it is about a horse and about the relationship between a man and a horse, or how the horse influenced the history of the country and the world. And everything will be true, since my grandfather Zavilgelsky Boris Dmitrievich was the director of the First Moscow Stud Farm, where the legendary stallion Kvadrat was born and the no less legendary groom Uncle Vasya worked.
Grandfather, Vasily and Kvadrat
7
2014
37 min
Why are stars so attractive? With its beauty, unexploredness, great remoteness from the earth? Some made this interest their profession and became scientists, astronomers and astrophysicists, others turned it into a hobby and all their free time from the roofs of houses and even in private observatories observe the starry sky, discovering new stars, giving them names. This film tells about astronomy, astronomers, professionals and amateurs.
We were once stars
8
2013
31 min
The hero of the film, a young Russian biologist, Alexander Sergeevich Ermakov, has been working on the study of stem cells in the UK for 10 years. But he is a man who dreams of giving his brains to his homeland. He flies to Russia with the hope of finding a job and staying. Here he is met by relatives, friends and misunderstanding of colleagues. Will Alexander Sergeevich stay in Russia?
Return of Alexander Sergeevich to Russia
8
2011
44 min
The history of the formation of Russian television in faces and memories.
All this television
8
2008
78 min
The collision of two parallel worlds, the world of high space technologies and the village of Pogorelets, lost in the Arkhangelsk forests. An allegorical story about the life of people in a remote village, which is located near the place where space rockets start. Resourceful villagers, exhausted by unemployment and poverty, have established handicraft production of things necessary in the village economy from the remains of spaceships. The boats are the best.
On the edge of being
8
2002
26 min