Lungin Pavel Semenovich

Date of Birth: 12/07/1949

. "We can do something only a person who simply shaking with fear and admiration, and which is subject to, and horror, and expectation, and delight in ten times more than others"


. Pavel Lungin was born July 12, 1949 in Moscow, and roots it does not obscure
. Lungin - it is a little "clan", but certainly "family", the famous "Capital House, even the" salon ". Not like Anna Pavlovna Scherer, in "War and Peace", of course, the Soviet version of this concept, but. Parallels Lungina - Mikhalkov "suggest themselves, and to some extent true, the only significant amendment that" house "was not the first semi-official Soviet facade. And so - there are similarities


. Like Mikhalkovs, . house and kept his soul was the Queen Mother - Liliana Lungina, . earned in his native homeland immortality at least so, . that learned to speak in Russian to the best of well-fed man in the prime forces and other heroes of Astrid Lindgren, . whose books she brilliantly translated,
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Father, Semyon Lungin, a screenwriter with a name involved in the creation of such iconic films as "Hab mavis" (1972) and "Agony" (1974, new. red. 81, No.. 85). Above all Lungin senior glorious commonwealth with Ilya Nusinov, a couple with whom they wrote the scripts are not to the same kind of excellent children's film "Welcome, or No access for unauthorized!" (1964), "Attention, Turtle!" (1970) and others. There Pavel Loungin more and younger brother Eugene, but the one in drama education, nothing but a successful marriage to the heiress of a French publisher-magnate, is not known. In any case, teenage drama "Angels in Paradise" (1992), became his directorial debut, came out worthless.


Other business - debut in the direction of his elder brother two years earlier. 1990, "Taxi Blues". And once the competition is not just the Cannes Film Festival, and the prize for Best Director. Well, yes, of course, then some of the world had moved from the roof perestroyka and glasnost. Well, yes, of course, Alex Herman, entered on the jury, to full program ran into his chair, Bernardo Bertolucci, who do something "Taxi Blues" did not seem. All so, the circumstances of time and place have played into the hands of Lungin. And yet I still Kann Kann, a prestigious prize - the prestigious prize, and the media debut - a resounding debut.


There should be clarified: directing debut. Because the filmmaker Lungin not with "Taxi Blues" begins. Though he and the director of education, . graduate of the relevant workshop Danelia and George Michael Lviv at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Film Directors, . but the first ten years practiced as a screenwriter and has earned a reputation masterovitogo, . not without cynicism, . pro, . ready to issue on-mountain to the desired product, . however, . its parameters well-conditioned,
. It is necessary to adventure movie about fighting a young Arkady Gaidar with Khakas bandits - please, "End of the Emperor taiga". It should be about the dedicated work rehabilitated the scientist - no questions, "Today or never.


Come, however, when Lungin said to myself: now or never. Sent to hell scenario crafts and lifestyles bohemian landlord, . about what image he later said this: "I thought, . that a man in a jeans pocket should be based on such a cutlet of crumpled money, . which will last for a day or two of any life, . any escapades ",
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New escapades Lungina was leaving for Paris, whence he returned with a script "Taxi Blues" and soon put him on film. Here taxis, cutting the blues of the night under the metropolis, threw each other's arms, and each other at the mercy of drunken saxophonist and his mother shoferyugu, intellectual decay and worker-peasant seed. And first, Lech Seliverstov, an alcoholic, hysterics and trash, blowing the adjusted poverty of life taxi driver Shlykova. Power of the film wound up, . Camera Denis Evstigneev, . then operator, . and excellent, . transformed Moscow in vital an urban monster; cult Peter Mamonov as Seliverstov and Peter Zaychenko, . while unknown, . as Shlykova - it was a first-class dueling duo,
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Later in the biography Lungina happened several non-fiction films on the western order and "Luna Park" (1992), where the director-dodger, norovyaschy grab raznosolnuyu life loafer resonant metaphors, remained true to himself. First - metropolitan taxi, now - as the capital-coaster ride, pretending to Luna Park. With these "hills" noisily slid, . bouncing around the turns, . story about tossing-anti-Semite, . go searching for my dad, . and he was all right to simply known composer-pesennnikom, . so also a person of Jewish nationality by the name of Heifetz (Oleg Borisov),
. The film was met at home without enthusiasm, in Lungina than just being accused, as a whole - in stirring up xenophobic nationalist hysteria in favor of the customer, scoundrel-West. Arrant nonsense: Lungin never sworn allegiance to "homespun realism" and "Luna Park" was exactly the same tale as "Taxi Blues". Insolent, magical, daring, Kicevo. There - about two lonely, that lit a fire near the road hot feelings here - about a boy who went looking for a parent.


"Lifeline" (1996), the third tale, taxied out of Moscow's urban prairie in the eastern kingdom. History was now an international and crazy: never-French composer, Russian organized crime, dad-mafioso and his daughter, his head buried in the ground instead of bars of accidents on the football field, butcher's hook as a weapon of torture. In order to take a break from this merry kospomoliticheskogo nightmare Lungin, long lives with his family in France, arrived in Russia, and clung to her roots, who were found in the Tula region, three hundred pounds from Moscow


. The town is called Limes - there and played "The Wedding" (2000), . where discordant, . wonderful and morally unspoiled Russian walking-flaw guzhuetsya beaten a half hours of screen, . not hesitating glance at point-blank, . which is experiencing its camera Alexander Burov, . jauntily hoisted on the cameraman's shoulder,
. From the simple ones, mnogozhdy visited in the thread (luring provintsialochki the capital's nouveau riche, scampish chronicles gink-in-hand with an absurd little wife, etc.) shall cope Lungin own mat. And since he - on the craft - not equal Dmitry Astrakhan and fixes, then the rug out anything themselves, such пІп?п?п?пҐя?п?п?п№.


Again, hear the muffled tropot: do currency trading. Well, not without. So? On the business card Lungina ever since "Taxi Blues" means: "exports to the positive image of the Russian soul". In his version of this soul displayed a light, even in the pitch dark chernushnoy life. Now the wedding spree - the perfect plot circumstance, in order to provide compatriots if not better, at least in the warm light. And nothing to reproach Lungina because he does not want to shout: "Bitter!" Yes, he cries out: "Though bitter, and yet I sweet!" And let his right.

. Filmography (director)

. 1990 - "Taxi Blues"
. 1991 - "The Gulag - the secret of happiness" (documentary)
. 1992 - Luna Park
. 1993 - "The underground pioneer" (documentary)
. 1996 - "Lifeline" (with In
. Lambert, A. Lerakom, SP-A. Salfati IN. Merezhko)
. 2000 - "Wedding"
. Filmography (writer)

. 1978 - "The End of the Emperor taiga" (with B. Kamov)
. 1978 - "Now or never
. 1979 - "Captain Grab-head"
. 1981 - "Vice Versa"
. 1990 - "Taxi Blues"
. 1991 - "The Gulag - the secret of happiness" (documentary)
. 1992 - Luna Park
. 1993 - "The underground pioneer" (documentary)
. 1996 - "Lifeline" (with In
. Lambert, A. Lerakom, SP-A. Salfati IN. Merezhko)
2000 - "The Wedding" (with A. Galin)