Skazka

Aleksandr Sokurov / Russia, Belgium, Estonia / 2022 / 78’ / Georgian, Aramaic, English, German, Italian, French | Italian Subtitles

Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Yosif Stalin, Winston Churchill, Napoleone Bonaparte. The men and dictators who changed history remain stuck in a surreal limbo, this time surrounded by landscapes from old engravings. They wander in search of access to paradise. Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini e Churchill They are absolutely real, shot at the time for newsreels. Their earthly life still won’t let them go: these dictators and powerful men of the past discuss among themselves, each in their own language, about clothes and uniforms, smells, posture and of course empires. Their main problem is that they cannot become history and cross the threshold of oblivion that separates the present from the past.

Screenplay Aleksandr Sokurov
Editing Vyacheslav Cherepanov
Music Fantasy from the themes of european, russian and soviet composer of the XIX and XX century, from Aleksandr Soklurov’s personal archive.
except for the compositon by Murat Kabardokov, sound by the Tavrichesky Orchestra directed by Mikhail Golikov, Extraliscio Primavera notturna by Mirko Mariani
Sound design and mix Alexander Vanyukov
Production Academy Two
Producer Nikolay Yankin
Executive producer Natalia Smagina
Archive research Denis Fedorin
Original materials Pierre-Olivier Barate
International organization Alyona Shumakova, Yaroslav Klykov
Techical area Denis Fedorin
Director assisistant Margarita Afonina
Informatic engineer Roman Rasskaza
Color correction Peter Doyle
VFX Yury Mokiyenko, Vitaliy Suvalov, Alexander Yefimov, Stepan Masychev, Dmitry Ushanov, Alexander Zolotukhin, Katerina Solovyova, Polina Ivanova, Evdokiya Bannaya, Ekaterina Yermolayeva
Translation Irma Kuchava, Marina Koreneva, Alyona Shumakova, Alla Belyak, Igor Gromov, Ketevan Zatuashvili
Dubbing NEVAFILM

Aleksandr Sokurov

Born july 14 1951 in the Podorvkikha village in Irktusk, Russia. Graduated in hoistory at the Gorky University and the in Directing at theVGIK (Panrussian Istitute for the Cinematography). With Faust,shas won the Gold Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2011.