Lutsik Peter

Peter Lutsik was the last hope of the Soviet cinema. Soviet - because it looked and felt like a mature man, only when the empire began to crumble. Because it relied on folklore and mythology of the Soviet "margin". Because, even in the most glamorous film "Limit" does not like being branded as a singer delights and sufferings of "new Russian".

It - it really is, they. Peter Lutsik and Alexei Samoryadov - a brilliant duet playwrights, the scenarios which were delivered the best, most conceptual film the first half of the 90-ies: "Children of the iron gods", "Eurofocus-Eurofocus" their favorite - "Gongofer".

In winter, 94-th Samoryadov tragically died in Yalta at the Forum of Young Cinema, which assigned the creative permits in XX1 Century. A little before reaching this alluring resort, Lutsik died in his sleep: his heart stopped beating.

In the interval between the two unfortunate events occurred much. Peter Lutsik, always in the shadow of some former Samoryadova ( "new Shukshina" as it were VGIK), was left completely in the shadow of. And suddenly emerged from it with his sensational directorial debut - a film "Outskirts", agitpropovskim project social utopia in the deeply ironic arrangement. The film became the main event of the second half of the 90's, if we bear in mind not only aesthetic, but above all the living context. The picture was supported festivals, critics, many influential people in person.

But not those who playfully blowing the nostalgia for the Council of Deputies. When it came to any Stebaev crap, could be moved sex appeal of totalitarianism and bad voice yelling Pioneer songs. When the film touched, even if it is in the allegorical form, the "black fairy tale" of our day, masters of culture have begun an urgent recall, with whom they. And how can you roughly - of the oligarchs. And how can you, hooligan - the People's Warbling robbers.

Lutsik again left alone - now all alone. Is that the company bad symbolism. I went to the "margin" in America, on the way back he almost got on the plane company Swiss Air, and not doletevshy to the other side of the Atlantic. Spas booze - and he and his fellow traveler teetotal.

Lutsik a lot of help and the time saved. But evidently, not very much he wanted to become a "director XX1-century". Oh he is very loved and did not like XX-th - with its mutants, holidays locusts, good people and Russia's wild field: all of these fundamental concepts gave his name to Samoryadovym scenarios.

. It is likely that some of them will now be delivered
. It is possible that there will even posthumous cult. The plot, almost seven years ago, shook our cinema absurd dramatic semi-final, now revealed to his exhaustive. Those who are on the outskirts, leaving. Those in the center of the new developments are. In this - the best justice. After all, should we enter the twenty-first century with a parade of the. Again see Stainless imperial greatness and the sky in diamonds even without the alcohol vapor.