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      • Konchalovsky's full-length feature, House of Fools (2003), with a cameo role by Bryan Adams as himself, set in a Chechen psychiatric asylum during the war, won him a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
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  2. Paradise (Russian: Рай; Ray) is a 2016 Russian drama film produced and directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival. [2] At Venice Konchalovsky won the Silver Lion for Best Director. [3]

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    This movie was shelved for 20 years. The love story of modest collective farm girl Asya and a good-for-nothing driver named Stepan was considered to be anti-Soviet - it was impossible (according to the censors) for people in Soviet Russia to be unhappy. Yet, that is exactly how Asya is portrayed - expecting a child by a man who doesn’t love her, wh...

    The movie, based on the celebrated play by Anton Chekhov, brought Konchalovsky his first success abroad - a prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, a prize at the Festival of Soviet Films in Sorrento and a prize at the International Film Festival in Milan. “The Russian Uncle Vanya is the best Uncle Vanya I’ve ever seen,” famous dire...

    This movie received awards in Venice and was nominated (representing Russia) for an Oscar but, at the same time, it was for a long time fiercely accused of being opportunistic. The plot is as follows: The First Chechen War is under way in the country. A psychiatric hospital in Ingushetia finds itself in the middle of hostilities and all the doctors...

    This movie depicts tiny villages on the shores of a lake, out in the sticks somewhere, whose inhabitants are essentially cut off from civilization. Their only link with the outside world is postman Aleksey Tryapitsyn (a real-life postman who played himself in the movie). He collects letters, pension payments and newspapers at the post office and th...

    Olga, a Russian émigré aristocrat, is arrested by the Nazis for harboring Jewish children. She is sent to a concentration camp, where she meets an acquaintance who has long been in love with her - a high-ranking SS officer. They develop a painful relationship and prepare an escape. However, her long-awaited paradise changes its appeal and meaning i...

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  3. Konchalovsky's full-length feature, House of Fools (2003), with a cameo role by Bryan Adams as himself, set in a Chechen psychiatric asylum during the war, won him a Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival. In 2010, Konchalovsky released a longtime passion project of his, The Nutcracker in 3D, a musical adaptation of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Silver_LionSilver Lion - Wikipedia

    The Silver Lion (Italian: Leone d'argento, also known as Silver Lion for Best Direction) is an annual award presented for best directing achievements in a feature film at official competition section of the Venice Film Festival since 1998.

  5. mubi.com › films › paradise-2016-andrei-konchalovskyParadise (2016) - MUBI

    Runaway Train director Andrei Konchalovsky won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for this engrossing tale, shot in beautiful monochrome. Shifting perspectives between characters and using direct address to the camera, Paradise is an inventive entry into an otherwise overplayed genre.

  6. A compelling tale of loss, betrayal and redemption, Andrei Konchalovsky’s bold, black-and-white World War II drama won the Venice Film Festival’s Silver Lion and was Russia’s entry in the 2017 Academy Awards.

  7. Konchalovsky won two Silver Lion awards for best direction at the same festival - in 2014 for ‘The Postman's White Nights’ (2014) and in 2016 for ‘Paradise’ (2016).