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Konstantin Lopushanskiy
Константин Лопушанский
Birth at
12 June 1947
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Konstantin Lopushansky was born on June 12, 1947 in Dnepropetrovsk. He received a musical education, graduating in 1970 from the Kazan State Conservatory (violin class) and in 1976 from the Leningrad State Conservatory (faculty of musical direction). At the age of 26 he receives the degree of Candidate of Art Studies. Subsequently, he teaches the history of performing arts and works as an editor in the opera house. He continued his training at the directorial department of the VKSR, which he graduated
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Konstantin Lopushansky was born on June 12, 1947 in Dnepropetrovsk. He received a musical education, graduating in 1970 from the Kazan State Conservatory (violin class) and in 1976 from the Leningrad State Conservatory (faculty of musical direction). At the age of 26 he receives the degree of Candidate of Art Studies. Subsequently, he teaches the history of performing arts and works as an editor in the opera house. He continued his training at the directorial department of the VKSR, which he graduated in 1979. When making a film
Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky acted as an assistant. Since 1980 he has been the director of Lenfilm.
His first film, Tears in Windy Weather, was made in 1978. And already in 1980, Lopushansky’s thesis Solo was recognized as the best film telling about the times of the blockade, and was awarded the Grand Prix of the IFF in Bilbao. The first feature-length film of the director was released in 1986, becoming a world-wide event. Despite the gloomy style of the picture, it had colossal figures for collections from viewing. At the time of perestroika, when the cinema was dominated by topical subjects, a second full-length film called “Museum Visitor” (1989) was released, which is a religious parable about the search for meaning and truth, about fanaticism and sacrifice and, of course, about the constant struggle between good and evil. And, finally, the first years of the XXI century were marked by the appearance of such paintings by Lopushansky as “The End of the Century” (2002) and
Ugly swans" (2006).
Being a student of Andrei Tarkovsky, Lopushansky in his work consistently pursues the aesthetic and spiritual principles of the master. In addition, he is one of the few Russian directors to whom such a concept as “author’s cinema” can be applied.