The Commune/ Община

The Commune/ Община
Russia, 2020, 42’
in Russian w/ Eng./ Arm. Subtitles

Directors: Pavel Fattakhutdinov, Svetlana Bobrova
Scriptwriter: Pavel Fattakhutdinov
Cinematographer: Anatoly Alexeev
Producer: Ludmila Kabaeva
Sound designer: Nadezhda Shestakova
Editor: Svetlana Bobrova
Production Company: Kinotechnologii
In difficult moments of life, the community saves, and when it has saved, it begins to weigh down. This is what happens to the family of our heroes – Eugeny and Elena.

Pavel Fattakhutdinov

Born in 1952 in Sverdlovsk (modern-day Yekaterinburg), Pavel Fattakhutdinov is a prolific Russian filmmaker, who graduated from the Ural State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics in 1974. Later on, he attended the Directing Courses of distinguished Russian filmmaker Gleb Panfilov in 1980. In 2018 his film Great Siberian Rivers: Biryusa was awarded the Ujan Community Council Prize within the frames of the IV Apricot Tree Ujan International Documentary Film Festival.

Filmography

Compromise (1980, feature), Alone and Unarmed (1983, feature), Flying Incident (1987, feature), The O So Unique Filmmaking of Ural (1987), How Kolyada Wrote his Play (1997), The Meeting of Pushkin and Goethe (2000), Lisa (2005), Sister (2006), Great Siberian Rivers. Angara (2009), The Eclipse (2010), Roadless (2011), Great Siberian Rivers. Lena (2013), Hard Luck (2013), Great Siberian Rivers: Biryusa (2014), Dreams of Russia (2019), The Commune (2020).

Svetlana Bobrova

Born on November 24, 1965, in Uralsk (Kazakh SSR), Svetlana Bobrova graduated from the Philological Faculty of the Ural State University. Currently, she works in the film company “Snega” as a director of editing, scriptwriter, and director. She is a member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation.

Filmography

Great Siberian Rivers: Biryusa (2014), Outsiders (2014), Candy Track (2015), Home (2016), The Commune (2020).