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Film Info

Deutschland 2018 | 90 min. Regie: Victor Kossakovsky
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Produktionsfirma

Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Pfaffendorfer Str. 26
04105 Leipzig Tel. +49 341 9839697 http://www.majade.de

Kategorien

Dokumentation

Aquarela

Synopsis

AQUARELA führt das Publikum auf eine filmische Reise durch die transformative Schönheit und rohe Kraft des Wassers. Der Film ist ein visueller Weckruf, dass Menschen der schieren Kraft und den launenhaften Willen des wertvollsten Elements der Erde nichts entgegensetzen können. Von den gefrorenen Wassern des russischen Baikalsees über Miami inmitten des wütenden Hurrikans Irma bis zu den mächtigen Salto Ángel Wasserfällen in Venezuela ist Wasser die Hauptfigur von AQUARELA. Regisseur Victor Kossakovsky fängt ihre vielen Persönlichkeiten mit erstaunlichen visuellen Details ein.

Ein Dokumentarfilm von Victor Kossakowsky. Produziert von Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH, Aconite Productions Ltd. und Danish Documentary. In Ko-Produktion mit Louverture films und RBB in Zusammenarbeit mit arte, Cactus World Films, Rio Negro Produccione und Ánorâk Film. Gefördert von Mitteldeutscher Medienförderung, Creative Scotland, British Film Institute, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, DFFF, Danish Film Institute, Government of Greenland. Entwicklung gefördert von Eurimages, Sundance und Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund.

Cast & Crew

Festivalteilnahmen/Preise

among others:

2020
LOLA@Berlinale — shortlisted for DEUTSCHER FILMPREIS DOKUMENTARFILM [German FilmAward]
shortlistied for — 92nd Academy Awards OSCAR®
2019
CPH:DOX Copenhagen, 34 DOK.fest Munich, 30 Int. Filmfest Emden Norderney
2018
75 FF Venice, 62 BFI London Film Festival, 14 Zurich FF, Viennale, 61 DOK Leipzig

Statement Regisseur

Looking back, it seems that for my whole life I have been preparing to make AQUARELAa. Almost 50 years ago, when I was just four years old, I spent one summer in a small village between Moscow and St. Petersburg. In that village was the source of a river. A man who lived there, Mikhail Belov, said to me, “Imagine Victor, if you made a little boat from wood chip and leaves, then put it in this river, it would float on the water to the North Sea and then around the world.”

I returned to that village 25 years later to shoot my film, BELOVY, which is about the people who live at the source of the river. The first episode was exactly as Mikhail had described to me: I put my camera into a little boat and I made an almost 1,000 km journey from that village to the sea. For this river scene I used a song from one of Raj Kapoor’s films. I had chosen this song, without knowing Hindi, simply because of its powerful energy, which fit well with my river episode. A few years later, and after a screening in India, some people told me that the song is about a river that flows like our lives.

Then, in the year 2000, while editing my film, I LOVED YOU, at Bornholm Island, I stayed in a house with a window looking out on the Baltic Sea. I noticed that the sea was different every day, every hour, even every minute. I was never bored because the water was never the same. I thought that if I could just film the waves from my window during a whole year, I could easily make a great film, without saying a word and without moving the camera, just watching the water changing! Different colours, different movements, different energies … through the natural lens of water you would be able to experience and feel the ebb and flow of all known human emotions — anger, aggression, peacefulness, nobility, loneliness, jealousy … everything!

With AQUARELA, I wanted to film every possible emotion that can be experienced while interacting with water — beautiful emotions, along with unsettling emotions of ecstasy and inspiration, as well as destruction and human devastation.

Biographie

Director, writer, cinematographer and editor Victor Kossakovsky is an innovative documentary filmmaker whose films have been honoured with more than 100 awards in national and international festivals. His distinctive filmography spans many different subjects but always explores the interplay of reality and poetic moments.

He began his career in motion pictures in 1978 at the Leningrad Studio of Documentaries as assistant cameraman, assistant director and editor. He studied Screenwriting and Directing at Moscow HCSF from 1986 to 1988. In 1989 he directed his first feature LSEV and then in 1992 his most famous documentary, THE BELOVS. In 2011, Victor's ¡VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! was selected as the opening film of the Venice Film Festival.

In many of his films, as with AQUARELA, Victor has served simultaneously as director, editor, cinematographer and writer. He continues to serve as a teacher and mentor to aspiring filmmakers and documentarians globally.

Victor Kossakovsky was born in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad at the time) on 19 July 1961.

Filmography:
2018 - AQUARELA, doc.
2013 - DEMONSTRATION, doc.
2011 - LONG LIVE THE ANTIPODES!, doc.
2005 - SVYATO, doc.
2003 - RUSSIA FROM MY WINDOW, doc.
2003 - I LOVED YOU, doc.
2002 - HUSH, doc.
1999 - WEDNESDAY 07.19.61, short doc.
1998 - PAVEL I LYALA, doc.
1994 - THE BELOVS, doc.

Produktionsfirma

Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions GmbH
Pfaffendorfer Str. 26
04105 Leipzig Tel. +49 341 9839697 http://www.majade.de

Cast & Crew

Victor Kossakovsky
 Heino Deckert (MA.JA.DE Filmproductions), Aimara Reques (Aconite Productions Ltd. ), Sigrid Dyekjær (Danish Filmproductions)
 Aimara Reques, Victor Kossakovsky
 Victor Kossakovsky, Ben Bernhard
 Molly Malene Stensgaard, Victor Kossakovsky, Ainara Vera
 Alexander Dudarev
 Eicca Toppinen

Kategorien

Dokumentation
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