Film Programme
ILJA ILF - DOUBLE EXPOSURE
documentary , Wed, 12:30
Russia, 2003, 29'
Director: Galina Dolmatovskaya
Producer: Ludmila Budiak
Director of photography: Vladimir Lozovsky
Writer: Alexandra Ilf
Composer: Andrei Eshpai
Editor: Tatiana Naidenova
Synopsis: Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov are famous figures in early 20th century Russian culture as the authors of two great satiric novels, The 12 Chairs (1928) and The Golden Calf (1931). Apart from his writing, Ilf was also an amateur photographer. Today, his photos have considerable documentary value: they include scenes that even the Russian film archives didn't think of conserving. Ilf thus assembled a large number of photos of Moscow, of his family and friends and some major figures of his day, such as Mayakovsky, photographed by Ilf shortly before the poet's suicide in April 1930. This film is made up of photos he shot all through his life. The commentary is taken from his notebooks.
Director: Galina Dolmatovskaya
After graduating from the Department of Journalism at Moscow State University Galina Dolmatovskaya worked for nearly ten years as a correspondent on Literaturnaja Gazeta.She then joined the Institute of Cinema Arts,where she is now Head of the Documentary Film Department.She has been awarded a doctorate of arts and has written several books,including Rod Steiger(1976),Who’s who in the Soviet Cinema(1979 with I.Shilova),”France tells its own story”(1980)Notes to the Past(1983),Pages of the Moon Calendar(1985).Winner of the prize of the Moscow Government.