IVAN SON OF AMIR
ИВАН СЫН АМИРА
Director :
Maksim Panfilov
Screenwriter :
Maksim Panfilov, Andrei Osipov
Cinematographer :
Oleg Lukichev
Cast :
Karolina Grushka, Bobur Yuldashev, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Andrey Merzlikin, Lola
Eltaeva, Nargis Abdullaeva, Aziza Begmatova, Anastasia Smoktunovskaya, Samira
Khuseynova
Film production and Sales : Film Company: Vera, Mosfilmovvskaya str. 1, Moscow (Russia), tel. and fax: +7 499 1439222, ivera2007@mail.ru
OFFICIAL FILM SYNOPSIS
Ivan Son of Amir was the only Russian film shown at the Montreal World Film Festival this year. The image to the left shows the Director of the film Mr. Maksim Panfilov (on the right) with two interpreters at the Press Conference that took place at the Hyatt Hotel in Montreal on August 28, 2013.
Two images below are also of the director Maksim Panfilov. On the left, he is listening to a question during the press conference. On the right, posing next to the official poster of his film right after the same press conference.
The film had merited an enthusiastic applause at the end of all three official screenings at the festival. Mr. Panfilov's film presents a very human situation, where a mistaken information is provided to the film's main character, which consequently leads her to faced a dilemma of making some life-changing choices to assure the survival of her two children and herself during the World War II. The original motive for this film was given to the director by his mother when she narrated to him a true story that happened to a Russian woman when she was evacuated from a war-torn Russia to Uzbekistan.
The film's heroin, interpreted superbly with great skill and sensitivity by Karolina Grushka, portrays emotions and conflicts experienced in a very unusual and difficult situation. This is especially true when her husband, previously declared dead in action, finds her in Uzbekistan after the war. Meanwhile, she has become a third wife of a Muslim Uzbek man, to whom she has born a son, small Ivan, called by his Uzbek father to honour the heroin's presumably fallen husband whose name was Ivan.
Although I could tell you more as what took place next, I would actually prefer you saw the film in person, in order to appreciate the ensuing drama, the characters' search to resolve the situation, and the inter-human relationships that triumph even in a complex diverse cultural situation, where purely human values common to all of us, regardless of our nationalities, triumph at the end.
The film features a superb cinematography with compelling, poetic, and skilfully constructed imagery. The music and sound effects are innate to the story line and help to bring it to the sharp focus. The other principle actors Bobur Yuldashev, Dmitry Dyuzhev also deliver a commendable performance, along with all the supporting actors and even extras.
The picture to the left shows the film's director Maksim Panfilov with the Montreal Film Festival's director Serge Losique at the Mayor of Montreal reception which took place under a tent, on the Montreal City Hall's terrace, on August 28, 2013. The photo below and to the left is of director Maksim Panfilov on the City Hall's terrace during the same reception. The photo to to the right shows Maksim Panfilov with his interpreter on the stage of the Montreal's Maisonneuve Theatre just before the screening of his film.
"A Russian woman from Sevastopol flees with her two children during the Second World War. Amir, an Uzbek with two wives, gives her shelter in a remote village. The Uzbek has not gone to the front to fight, because he, as he explains, he does not like to kill people. Nevertheless, Amir believes that he is "defending the motherland" by looking after and feeding his own family along with the Russian, now his third wife, her two children and little Ivan, his new son from the Russian woman. When the war ends, the woman's husband, a lieutenant of the Black Sea fleet, who was assumed to be dead, shows up looking for his wife and children. He finds them and returns with them to Sevastopol -- his wife, the children and little Ivan. But he has difficulty accepting that his wife was third wife of a Muslim man who wouldn't fight in the war and the product of their union, Ivan, who is named after him, is now playing host to Amir's visiting family."
Two images below are also of the director Maksim Panfilov. On the left, he is listening to a question during the press conference. On the right, posing next to the official poster of his film right after the same press conference.
The film had merited an enthusiastic applause at the end of all three official screenings at the festival. Mr. Panfilov's film presents a very human situation, where a mistaken information is provided to the film's main character, which consequently leads her to faced a dilemma of making some life-changing choices to assure the survival of her two children and herself during the World War II. The original motive for this film was given to the director by his mother when she narrated to him a true story that happened to a Russian woman when she was evacuated from a war-torn Russia to Uzbekistan.
The film's heroin, interpreted superbly with great skill and sensitivity by Karolina Grushka, portrays emotions and conflicts experienced in a very unusual and difficult situation. This is especially true when her husband, previously declared dead in action, finds her in Uzbekistan after the war. Meanwhile, she has become a third wife of a Muslim Uzbek man, to whom she has born a son, small Ivan, called by his Uzbek father to honour the heroin's presumably fallen husband whose name was Ivan.
Although I could tell you more as what took place next, I would actually prefer you saw the film in person, in order to appreciate the ensuing drama, the characters' search to resolve the situation, and the inter-human relationships that triumph even in a complex diverse cultural situation, where purely human values common to all of us, regardless of our nationalities, triumph at the end.
The film features a superb cinematography with compelling, poetic, and skilfully constructed imagery. The music and sound effects are innate to the story line and help to bring it to the sharp focus. The other principle actors Bobur Yuldashev, Dmitry Dyuzhev also deliver a commendable performance, along with all the supporting actors and even extras.
Film's trailer:
ТРЕЙЛЕР ФИЛЬМА "ИВАН СЫН АМИРА", РЕЖ. МАКСИМ ПАНФИЛОВ
This film has merited the Best Screenplay Prize that was awarded at the very end of the festival. Read more about it in my post of September 3, 2013:
Montreal World Film festival 2013: Best Screenplay - Ivan Son of Amir
Top Image courtesy MWFF 2013 and the Director of the film.
All other photos by Nadia Slejskova.
© Nadia Slejskova
ТРЕЙЛЕР ФИЛЬМА "ИВАН СЫН АМИРА", РЕЖ. МАКСИМ ПАНФИЛОВ
This film has merited the Best Screenplay Prize that was awarded at the very end of the festival. Read more about it in my post of September 3, 2013:
Montreal World Film festival 2013: Best Screenplay - Ivan Son of Amir
Top Image courtesy MWFF 2013 and the Director of the film.
All other photos by Nadia Slejskova.
© Nadia Slejskova
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