Alive, whole, golden eagle – Newspaper Kommersant No. 16 (7461) dated 01/30/2023
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In Moscow social life, which is still not sure whether to recover after the New Year holidays, nothing bigger than the 21st Golden Eagle awards ceremony took place last week (for the distribution of awards in all respects, see “The Many-Headed “Eagle “” Yulia Shagelman). However, the “Eagle” this time was more like a crocodile in the old joke: “It flies, but only low, low.”
The red carpet was crowded and beautiful, but none of the main characters came this year – to such an extent that President Vladimir Putin’s congratulatory telegram was read by the general director of the Mosfilm film concern Karen Shakhnazarov. Previously, the current Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova, the former Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and, if I am not mistaken, even the Vice Speaker of the State Duma, former President of the Olympic Committee and Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, came to the microphone with this case. But this year, Nikita Mikhalkov (who continues to recover from his illness) did not come to the ceremony, none of his family members, and, accordingly, none of his friends.
Mikhalkov’s colleague, producer Leonid Vereshchagin, looked at Mosfilm before the ceremony, coughed, pleaded a cough, and left. In the front row, literally in the place that Mr. Mikhalkov usually occupies, sat the partner of the ceremony, the owner of the Sima Land company, Andrey Simanovsky. Until this year, in addition to the Mercury jewelry company, Gleb Fetisov’s Fetisoff Illusions was a partner of Orel, but now it has concentrated on working in Europe, so Mr. Simanovsky helped out a lot with the film award. However, he did not have a good photo with important people at the end of this evening.
The ceremony was directed by Anton Kalinkin, replacing the director, actor and last artistic director of the Gogol Center Alexei Agranovich. But here the replacement was inevitable, I believe, on a mutual initiative. Mr. Kalinkin, it seems, was briefed to make the ceremony in the genre of “let’s be quiet, let’s do it in an undertone.” For example, at the Orel ceremony in 2015 – after the inclusion of Crimea into Russia – children came on stage to perform a dance in honor of this event. Then it looked like a good concert at the Palace of Pioneers and really made a strong impression. This time, despite a lot of changes – both in geopolitics and in reality – the script was written in such a way that there was nothing superfluous, random and loud in it. The voices of the presenters Daria Zlatopolskaya and Alexei Guskov were not filled with enthusiasm and triumph, but sounded intelligent and friendly. Perhaps this is how uncertainty about the finality of accessions and changes looks like.
However, the past year was not the brightest in terms of cinema. The main contenders for the awards were: a film about the war in Syria “Once Upon a Time in the Desert” (collection of 43.7 million rubles), a film about wars in the framework of Russian expansion to the Urals and the unification of Rus’ “Heart of Parma” (collection of 932 million rubles), a film about the Great Patriotic War “First Oscar” (81.6 million rubles), a film about a chess war at the height of the Cold War “World Champion” (422 million rubles) and a film about a man in his thirties with a mortgage and two children, who burned out from all this, “Healthy man.” The last picture has yet to be released, but it has already won the Russian cinema program at the Moscow Film Festival, well, it was directed by Pyotr Todorovsky. And Russian film academics honor nothing like dynasties!
This year, the Golden Eagles, in addition to Mr. Todorovsky, who received the prize for the best script, flew to Anna Mikhalkova for her role in Natalia Meshchaninova’s online series Alice Can’t Wait, Nikita Efremov for her role in Maxim Ivanov’s series Patient Zero, Ivan Yankovsky for the film “World Champion”. Only actress Daria Balabanova received an award for her supporting role in A Healthy Man, not thanks to, but somehow as if in spite of the coincidence of the surname with director Alexei Balabanov – a documentary film about which director Lyubov Arkus did not receive a prize, although it was nominated.
The only one who tried to hint that everything around was not so quiet and not at all in an undertone was the actress Yulia Khlynina, who received an award for the television series Elizabeth. In a white long dress with a huge red drop of Mercury rubellite in the deep neckline, she said: “And I am grateful to my colleagues who are now far, very far away. I hear you, I feel you, I learn from you.
The prize for “Best Film” went to Alexei Sidorov’s “World Champion”. Film dynasties know their business: Patriarch Nikita Mikhalkov, thus, will continue to recover with the fresh “Golden Eagle” – he is the film’s producer.
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