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Avdotya (Dunya ) Andreevna Smirnova (Russian: Авдотья (Дуня) Андреевна Смирнова; born 29 June 1969; Moscow) is a Russian film director, screenwriter, producer, TV host and literary critic, winner of numerous awards and accolades, founder of the charity foundation Vikhod.
She is a daughter of famous Soviet-Russian director and actor Andrei Smirnov.
Avdotya Smirnova was born in Moscow, to actors Natalya Rudnaya and Andrei Smirnov.
Her grandfather Sergey Smirnov was a Soviet writer and historian.
Smirnova has been interested in cinema since childhood.
When her father forbade her to enter Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, she went to MSU Philology Department.
After three years she transferred to GITIS, but didn’t finish her studies.
In 1987-88, Smirnova worked at Mosfilm with Sergei Solovyov, in the meantime performing in punk-rock band Tupie and contributing to Urlait samizdat magazine.
At the age of 20, Smirnova married Arkady Ippolitov and moved to Leningrad with him.
Several years later, in 1995, she was invited to Kommersant and emerged as a journalist, she contributed to Afisha, Vogue, Seans, and other magazines.
For some time in the early 2000s she worked as a speechwriter for Union of Right Forces and Anatoly Chubais.
In 2002-2014 Smirnova co-hosted The School for Scandal with her long-time friend, Russian writer Tatyana Tolstaya.
The program received TEFI award in 2003 in Best Talk Show nomination.
Smirnova wrote her first screenplay in 1992.
Together with Alexei Uchitel she created The Last Hero (Russian movie) about Kino leader Viktor Tsoi.
In 1993, she wrote the Butterfly documentary, also in collaboration with Uchitel.
In 1995, Gisele's Mania based on Smirnova’s screenplay was released.
In 2000, Alexey Uchitel released His Wife's Diary based on Smirnova's screenplay.
Smirnova was awarded at The Hartley-Merrill International Screening Competition.
Other movies written by Smirnova are The Stroll (2003), The Connection (2006), Gloss (2007), Fathers and Sons (2008), 9th of May: Personal Perspective.
All films met mostly positive responses both by critics and the public.
The Connection, released in 2006, became Smirnova's first experience as a director.
Her comedy drama Two Days (2011) collected many awards but was much criticized for romanticizing the state officials as one of the protagonists and main hero in the movie was running for governor's post.
In parallel with Smirnova's real life marriage to a top-ranking state official, critics perceived the film as an attempt to whitewash the image of the government employees.
In 2012, she released Kokoko, a movie co-written with Anna Parmas and directed by Smirnova.
The tragicomedy about a Russian museum worker brought its main actress Anna Mikhalkova the Best Prize for acting at Kinotavr 2012 and numerous accolades for Smirnova.
In 2016, Smirnova became one of the directors of the Peterburg: only by love cinema almanac, a so-called love letter in a movie form to the cultural capital of Russia.
In 2018, Smirnova released The Story of a Single Purpose.
The script is based on a true story that happened to 38-years old Leo Tolstoy.
In 2021, Smirnova released Vertinsky — an 8-series film about prominent Russian chansonnier Alexander Vertinsky.
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The Osipovs are a very ordinary...Carpenter 2022
The Osipovs are a very ordinary family from Ulyanovsk. Father, mother and son. They are no different from thousands and thousands of other families, except that they are happy. They love each other. The sudden illness of the son drives through them with an asphalt roller. Parents are ready for anything, they lose their home, and sometimes their human form, trying to save their child. At some point, even the mother breaks down. But not the father. The most ordinary person. A provincial carpenter.
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The shrill and tragic story about...The Tolstoy Defence 2018
The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula region an offence occurs. In this regiment, the capital’s lieutenant Grigory Kolokoltsev — inspired by progressive ideas — does his service. A military tribunal and execution await the soldier charged with the offence. Kolokoltsev asks Count Tolstoy for help — and he decides to protect the innocent man. The pointed history about the complexity of choice and fidelity to one’s ideals is based on real events.
Petersburg A Selfie comprises seven novellas...Petersburg: Selfie 2016
Petersburg. A Selfie comprises seven novellas about the beautiful city of St. Petersburg, Russia, shot by female directors. The film tells a story of a real, living and breathing city, rather than a mythical phantasm. Each novella tells its own story about love and loneliness, luck and hope.
A genuine satiric comedy based on...Till Night Do Us Part 2012
A genuine satiric comedy, based on real conversations - both amusing and sad - overheard by a journalist in one of the most expensive Moscow restaurants. Hilarious and revealing, this is a film about women who choose between affection and money, film producers that don't really know what they're filming, and weary businessmen who sometimes say screw it, down a shot and leave their mother-in-laws to pay the bill. But most of all, it's about true love that favors noisy kitchen floor over gilded fine-dining halls.
Five passengers the Bandit his friend...Me Too 2012
Five passengers - the Bandit, his friend Matvei, Matvei's old father, the Musician, and a young woman - race along an empty road in a big black jeep, searching for the Belfry of Happiness which, according to hearsay, lies somewhere between St. Petersburg and the town of Uglich, near a deserted nuclear power station. The Belfry takes people, but it does not take everyone. Each of the five passengers believes that he or she will be chosen.
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A two days from the life...Two Days 2011
A two days from the life of Pyotr Drozdov, a highly ranked official from Moscow, which he spends with young museum employee Masha.
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Ilya lives in Moscow Nina lives...The Connection 2006
Ilya lives in Moscow; Nina lives in St. Petersburg. Ilya has a beautiful wife and a daughter; Nina's husband is an artist, and they have a young son. Nina occasionally travels to Moscow to see her partners in the publishing industry. Ilya sometimes comes to St. Petersburg on business. But more often they are in the train between St. Petersburg and Moscow just to see each other. Because they have an affair.
Todays twentysomething Russians are the first...The Stroll 2003
Today’s twenty-something Russians are the first generation in the country’s post-communist history to have grown up free. Their twenties are the age of freedom, of fast-changing events and intense emotions. Perhaps only at this age they can live a whole life in one day. A young girl and her two accident companions walk halfway around St.-Petersburg; they flirt and tease each other, and for ninety minutes they act out a real-time romantic drama. This stroll is full of laughter and tears against a backdrop of the hustle and bustle of the streets.
A tragic story of love and...His Wife's Diary 2000
A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov. A work of great honesty and piercing psychology.
Gera a respected director of TV...8 ½ $ 1999
Gera, a respected director of TV commercials, thinks he's capable of creating a fiction movie masterpiece. Predictably, he ends up with owning money to a mafia and no film to show for. To make his life even crazier he falls in love with a girl who belongs to the boss of mafia.
A detectivedramatic chronicle of love adventures...Gisele's Mania 1995
A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle. It was Giselle who immortalized her name in 1924. It was "Giselle" that caused the psychic catastrophe in 1942.
Roman Viktyuk either hate or adore...Batterflyay 1993
Roman Viktyuk either hate or adore. But the eccentricity, the dissimilarity to everything of his work is recognized by everyone. The film by Alexei Uchitel - illustration for the life of the scandalous maestro. Unique shots from rehearsals, a trip to Lviv and New York, young actors, now stars - once opened by Viktyuk, scenes from the director's most striking and challenging performances. And Roman Viktyuk himself, ironic, funny, sincere .
The portrait of the creator of...Last Hero 1992
The portrait of the creator of the Kino group, consisting of the thoughts and memories of people who loved him, appears before the audience as a musical prophecy of a talented artist about his own life.
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The story happens mainly around The...A Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, a Red Rose an Emblem of Love 1990
The story happens mainly around "The Old Arbat Street" in the center of Moscow, where always concentrate vendors, poor young artists and musicians. The hero of this film is a boy named Mitiya,who lives with eccentric elder friend in an apartment house on "The Old Arbat". In fact, people who then appear around Mitiya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.
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