Pavel Lungin
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Pavel Lungin/ Lounguine (Russia, 1949) was a screenwriter in the late Soviet era until he debuted as a director with
Taksi-Blyuz/ Taxi Blues (1990), scored by Vladimir Chekasin, in theory a "buddy movie" about a self-loathing drunken Jewish jazzman and a struggling hard-working cab driver but in practice a fresco of national malaise (alcoholism, antisemitism, crime, poverty).
After the French coproductions Luna Park (1992), Ligne de Vie/ Lifeline (1996), Svadba/ The Wedding (2000) and Oligarch/ Tycoon (2002)
Bednye Rodstvenniki/ Poor Relatives (2005),
written by Gennady Ostrovsky, he made
Ostrov/ The Island (2006), written by Dmitriy Sobolev and photographed by Andrey Zhegalov.
He then directed: Vetka Sireni/ Branch of Lilac (2007), a biopic of composer Sergey Rachmaninov, Tsar (2009), set in the 16th century, Dirizhyor/ The Conductor (2012), Dama Pik/ Queen of Spades (2016), the war movie Bratstvo/ Brotherhood/ Leaving Afghanistan (2019), Esau (2019), an adaptation of Meir Shalev's novel.
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