Konstantin Lopushansky
Russian film director and screenwriter Konstantin Lopushansky is rightfully considered the spiritual and esthetic successor to Andrei Tarkovsky. He is also one of the few Russian directors who is indisputably an auteur.
He has won awards at more than 30 international film festivals (including the international Ecumenical Jury Award twice – at the Berlinale in 1995 and at the Moscow Film Festival in 1989). He is laureate of the Russian Vassilyev Brothers State Prize, the FIPRESSI prize, and the St.Petersburg Prize (in the nomination of arts and literature, 2007, for The Ugly Swans). He received the honorary title of Russian People's Artist (in 2008). He is a member of the European Movie Academy (EFA), an acting member of the Russian Cinema Academy and of the Russian National Academy of Cinema Arts and Science.
Lopushansky's first full-length film, Letters from a Dead Man (Briefe eines Toten, Lettres d'un homme mort), brought him world-wide fame. It was screened at more than ten international festivals, including Cannes in 1987.
Konstantin Lopushansky also writes the scripts for his films. His scripts have been published as literary works in Russia and Europe.
Lopushansky's films have been screened numerous times on television, in France (ARTE), Germany (ZDF), Canada, the USA (TBC), South America, Australia, the U.K. and Eastern Europe. Retrospectives of Lopushansky's films have been held in cinemas in Germany, France, Belgium, Russia, and other countries.
He has been a director at the Lenfilm Studio since 1980.
Filmography:
2013 - The Role
2006 - The Ugly Swans
2001 - The Turn of the Century
1994 - Russian Symphony
1989 - The Museum Visitor
1986 - Letters from a Dead Man
1980 - Solo
1979 - Tears in The Wind