Soviet film director, screenwriter. Michael (Moses) Naumovich Kalik was born on January 29, 1927
Arkhangelsk. He studied at the directorial faculty of VGIK (workshop)
G. Aleksandrova, together with several other students, was
Arrested in the Youth Anti-Soviet Terrorist Case
He was sentenced to 20 years of forced labor camps.
There were several prisons and camps, including Lefortovo and Ozerlag.
Released and rehabilitated in 1954, reinstated in his third year
Institute, graduated in 1958 (S.
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Soviet film director, screenwriter. Michael (Moses) Naumovich Kalik was born on January 29, 1927
Arkhangelsk. He studied at the directorial faculty of VGIK (workshop)
G. Aleksandrova, together with several other students, was
Arrested in the Youth Anti-Soviet Terrorist Case
He was sentenced to 20 years of forced labor camps.
There were several prisons and camps, including Lefortovo and Ozerlag.
Released and rehabilitated in 1954, reinstated in his third year
Institute, graduated in 1958 (S. Yutkevich workshop). As in
The diploma work was counted made during the study film Youth
Our Fathers (1958) based on A. Fadeev’s novel The Defeat, which brought the director wide fame.
After the institute worked at the film studio "Moldova-film", where the first time
He helped complete the film Ataman Codre (1958).
The struggle of the Moldavian rebels against landlord oppression. Done.
Then independently paintings Lullaby (1960; Diploma of Honor)
Locarno International Film Festival, 1960 and especially The Man Goes
After the Sun (1961) testified about the arrival in Soviet cinema
of extraordinary talent. The story of a boy who decided by childhood naivety
He sees the sun and sees all kinds of people.
A person who has to go through all stages of life,
Avoid periods of happiness and loss. About pre-war years, time
Irreversible and incredible happiness, says the film Goodbye, boys!
(1964) based on the novel by B. Balter. In the film played their first roles.
M. Kononov and E. Steblov and debuted better known as
film director N. Dostal.
To Love (1968-1990) – a film with complex film drama and composition,
where documentary footage, conversations and interviews alternate in a special rhythm
with game novels. Very important for the style of the film epigraphs
Title Bibles. The question “What does it mean to love?” grows into
One of the most important questions of existence. They are trying to answer and
unnamed bystanders interviewed by the filmmakers, and
Priest A. Men, whose reflections in front of the camera are
A kind of philosophical monologue. Roles in four game novels
The works of modern writers were magnificently played by actors.
L. Round, A. Freundlich, S. Gurzo Jr., S. Svetlichnaya. Claims,
presented to the film, invasion of artistic fabric, removal
The episodes and re-editing caused a protest of the director, who tried to defend
Your rights through WAAP. The film was shot off the screen. I never saw the screen.
The Price (1969) based on the play by A. Miller (the first screening of the film)
Central Television - 1989.
Attempt by the authorities to open a criminal case against the director in connection with the
paid performances in clubs and screenings of his films (common)
practice at the time), apparent pressure, removal of paintings based on
The fact that the films belong to film studios and the state was prompted by
The director submits documents to travel to Israel. All copies of the movie.
Love, mounted according to the author's plan, somehow disappeared,
The film was partially restored and revised by the director only in 1990.
boundary (the new version is different from the original).
Kalik emigrated in November 1971. November 14th as a reminder of the
Farewell to the Motherland and dear people, present in the last film
Director And the Wind Returns... (1991) Jury Prize for Courage
"Talent" at the Kinotavr Film Festival, Sochi, 1992. This job,
polemically autobiographical, tells about the life of the director, beginning with
From childhood, when the world seems so vast, capturing years.
evacuation (he sees in Alma-Ata S. Eisenstein, shooting a picture)
“Ivan the Terrible”), paintings of camp life, administrative studies and
not only on the part of filmmakers, but also on the part of the
Moldovan officials who strongly condemned the film
"Man follows the sun." And up to the wires, the painful gatherings before leaving.
Movie editing is not related to rhythm or artistic unity.
The director tries to prove himself right, for which he introduces
Photos from his previous paintings. This movie, first of all,
A human document cannot be called organic, however, and
The life that fell to the lot of M. Kalik, a director whose work is powerful
It influenced the style of cinema of the 60s. (Evgeny Peremyshlev).