BlackTree TV, Producer, Jamaal Finkley sits down with Sergei Bodrov to discuss Life, History, Religion and his new movie Mongol.Award-winning Russian filmmaker Sergei Bodrov (PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS) illuminates the life and legend of Genghis Khan in his stunning historical epic, MONGOL. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, MONGOL delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of the ruler who was born as Temudgin in 1162. As it follows Temudgin from his perilous childhood to the battle that sealed his destiny, the film paints a multidimensional portrait of the future conqueror, revealing him not as the evil brute of hoary stereotype, but as an inspiring, fearless and visionary leader. MONGOL shows us the making of an extraordinary man, and the foundation on which so much of his greatness rested: his relationship with his wife, Borte, his lifelong love and most trusted advisor.Filmed in the very lands that gave birth to Genghis Khan, MONGOL transports us back to a distant and exotic period in world history; to a nomad's landscape of endless space, climatic extremes and ever-present danger. In a performance of powerful stillness and subtlety, celebrated young Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu (ZATOICHI, LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE) captures the inner fire that enabled a hunted boy to become a legendary conqueror. Asano's achievement is matched by those of his co-stars, including the radiant newcomer Khulan Chuluun as Temudgin's courageous, spirited wife Borte, and the Chinese actor Honglei Sun (THE ROAD HOME) as the Mongol chieftain Jamukha, Temudgin's dearest friend and deadliest enemy. Masterfully blending action and emotion against some of the most arresting terrain on earth, Bodrov delivers an exciting and awe-inspiring tale of survival and triumph, and a love story for the ages.MONGOL will be released on Friday, June 6th, 2008. 124 minutes. MPAA Rating -- R.http://www.blacktree.tv [ More Detail ]
Trailer for the film directed by Sergei Bodrov - coming to the States on June, 6 2008.The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206.Genres: Action/Adventure, Art/Foreign, Drama and BiopicRunning Time: 2 hrs. 6 min.Release Date: June 6th, 2008 (limited)MPAA Rating: R for sequences of bloody warfare.Distributors: PicturehouseStarring: Tadanobu Asano, Sun HongleiDirected by: Sergei BodrovProduced by: Bulat Galimgereyev, Sergei Selyanov, Anton Melnik [ More Detail ]
This is a contemporary setting of "My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord" (the Russian Orthodox version of the "Magnificat") by Sergei Tolstokulakov. It is sung by the Novokuznetsk Spiritual Seminary Choir under the direction of Angelina Tolstokulakova. This video uses the Christian art of the great Peredvizhniki artist Ilya Repin as the backdrop."More honourable than the Cherubim, and more glorious beyond compare than the Seraphim, Thou who without defilement gavest birth to God the Word, O True Birthgiver of God, Thee do we magnify!" [ More Detail ]
Eisenstein's three great films about the Russian Revolution - Strike, The Battleship Potemkin and October - were all made between 1924 and 1928, before Stalin had consolidated his power and gained an iron grip on the arts. During this period the Communist Party initially favored Proletkult artists. Strike, made in 1924, Eisenstein's second film and the first of the trilogy, was originally planned as the first of a series of films documenting the pre-revolutionary working class. It turned out to be an artistic success as well as an educational aid and it won an award at the 1925 'Exposition des Arts Décoratifs' in Paris, as well as being commercially exhibited in Germany. On its release in 1925, Strike was poorly received by the Russian public, whose imagination had already been gripped by American films and the comfy folkloric familiarity of their conventional questing heroes and tightly developed narratives. A domestic flop in the Soviet Union, Potemkin was loved by German audiences, although the armed forces were forbidden to see it for fear of mutiny, as were Pennsylvanian audiences on the grounds that it gave American sailors 'a blueprint as to how to conduct a mutiny'.38 When it was eventually screened in the US in 1926, Chaplin declared it to be 'the best film in the world'. In France the authorities burnt all copies they could find - it received only a limited art house screening at Paris film clubs. Despite being banned in the UK until 1954, The Battleship Potemkin has rarely been out of the annual BFI critics' top ten list, and only then when another Eisenstein film has been voted in. It is easy to see why. The Odessa Steps sequence has even now the power to move and excite: '...Eisenstein, in forcing the spectator to create the image by putting together all the relationships between attractions (relationships existing because of the interpenetrating theme), gives to the spectator not a completed image, but the "experience of completing an image".'39 All Eisenstein's elements come together in this perfect piece of cinema and the audience participates in the process of producing meaning. The film documents an event that helped precipitate the 1905 Revolution which shook the Tsarist regime. The battleship Potemkin is a microcosm of Russian society. The ship's officers, doctor and priest - all representing the ruling power structure - pile abuse on top of abuse until maggot infested meat and a threatened mass execution push the sailors to mutiny. The mutineers eventually find sanctuary at the Black Sea port of Odessa, the setting for the film's penultimate sequence, showing Odessa's population supporting the Potemkin mutineers anchored in the bay. The sudden appearance of Tsarist soldiers abruptly reverses the joyous mood as the troops mercilessly advance, shooting everything that moves. Rhythm (cutting) builds with tempo (the pace of action within the frame) as the soldiers descend the steps in relentless solid formation behind the chaotically scattering crowd. This descending action travels left to right across the screen for rapidity (because we read left to right, top to bottom in English, our brains process screen information better in this direction, enabling us to read the images faster). [ More Detail ]
Space Race is a BBC docu-drama series first shown in Britain on BBC2 between September/October 2005, chronicling the major events and characters in the American/Soviet space race. It focusses on Sergei Korolev, the Soviets' chief rocket designer, and Wernher von Braun, his American counterpart. The series was a joint effort between British, German, American and Russian production teams.Korolev was diagnosed with cancer some time in 1965 but kept it a secret from his colleagues. In January 1966 he checked into a Moscow hospital. The Minister of Health himself elected to conduct the colon surgery -- not his area of expertise. It all went horribly wrong, and Korolev died on the operating table. His untimely death at 59 was a huge blow to the Soviet space program. His successor, Mishin, did not have the necessary talents and standing to push Korolev's moon project through to a successful conclusion. Just two weeks after Korolev's death his Luna 9 probe soft-landed on the moon and sent back the first close-up views of the surface. It was the last significant Soviet space first.Korolev's talents were immense vision, enthusiasm and energy that motivated his co-workers and subordinates. His personal attention to detail ensured that critical equipment was of the highest quality and that manned space flights were safely conducted. He had to be enormously persistent and convinced of the rightness of his views to push his projects forward against immense opposition and competition.But these qualities became less appropriate as the projects increased in number and scope. Korolev's refusal to compromise on technical issues resulted in alienation of other chief designers, most notably Glushko, forcing him to lose years of time developing new sources of rocket engines. The Americans required the resources and expertise of four major contractors to develop the Saturn V booster and the Apollo spacecraft. Korolev was attempting to do the same within a single industrial enterprise. He left his successor, Mishin, with a seemingly impossible task. Then again, had he lived a few more years in good health, perhaps he could have beat the Americans to the moon... and gone on to Mars, one improvised step at a time... [ More Detail ]
Sergei, parte da peça Coçando o Saccro, realizado pela Olaria Grandes Bosta.----------Letra da Música:Ser gay... é como ser canhoto ou destro!Ser gay... é como eu gostar do Ernesto.Ser gayé uma antiga tradição- Sócrates era!- Homero era!- E também Platão!Ser gay é como ser canhoto ou destroSer gay é muito mais que um simples gestoSer gay é pirar num cachecolE cagar e andarpara o futebolSer gay, sendo biba ou sendo ursoSergei também é Sérgio em RussoEstá na teoria da evoluçãoSe você não é... seus filhos serão!(interlúdio)Ser gayé ser um doutor sapecaa minha mecaé o frei canecaSer gay é tudo de bomÉ como ser judeu ou ser maçomE é melhor ser um viadoDo que ser advogaaadooo....Ser gay é nunca ser cafona ou bregaSer gay é como ser um contra-regraÉ conhecer o espetáculo por trásE aplaudir de pé e pedir por maisSer gay é como ser canhoto ou destro- Ser gay é como eu!- Eu como o Ernesto!Está na teoria da evolução..Se você não éSeus filhos serãããõ.....- E tentar curar um viado é como tentar curar um anão. [ More Detail ]
Phillip W. Serna Doctoral Recital from 2002 at Northwestern UniversityQuintet, Op. 39 by Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)For Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, and BassTema (Moderato) - Variation I - Variation II *Andante energico Allegro sostenuto, me con brio Adagio pesante Allegro precipitato, ma non troppo prestoAndantinoSeason Summers, OboeSam Kaestner, ClarinetHaijin Choi, ViolinHeather Neaveill, ViolaDr. Phillip W. Serna, Double BassFor more information, visit Dr. Phillip W. Serna at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. [ More Detail ]
Daredemo Picasso 1998 JapanFeature : Sergei NakariakovPerformance : Kita no Kuni karahttp://youtube.com/watch?v=0Pen5nQBQQYたけしの誰でもピカソ「トランペット界の貴公子生演奏」特集:セルゲイ・ナカリャコフ桑野信義とセッション「北の国から」 [ More Detail ]
Rachmaninov was of course the brilliant virtuoso we all know, but as a genious composer he has as well his place in the standard classical repertoire. Here we hear him play the moderato from his second piano concerto. This unique recording with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra directed by Leopold Stokowski was made for RCA in 1929. At request, I'm now uploading the first movement. [ More Detail ]
Rachmaninov was of course the brilliant virtuoso we all know, but as a genious composer he has as well his place in the standard classical repertoire. Here we hear him play the adagio sostenuto from his second piano concerto. This unique recording with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra directed by Leopold Stokowski was made for RCA in 1929. [ More Detail ]
Hardtalk spoke to Russia's defence minister ahead of the G8 summit in St Petersburg. But should Russia even be in the G8 of leading industrialised democracies? Concerns have been raised in Western capitals over the state's control of the media, corruption and Russia's relations with her neighbours. But are those fears justified? Sergei Ivanov is Russia's Defence minister and a leading candidate to take over from President Putin in 2008. What is his vision for the future of Russia? [ More Detail ]
Great singers of Russia's world famous Bolshoi Opera.... From the thirties to the sixties two tenors: Ivan Kozlovsky and Sergei Lemeshev were friendly rivals for public popularity. Both tenors sing their tribute to Anton Tchekhov's widow Olga Kniepper at the special Jubilee for her at the Moscow Art Theatre... [ More Detail ]