Dear Hans, dear Peter. Mindadze Alexander Anatolyevich

Alexander Mindadze - screenwriter, film director. The owner of numerous awards, including the “Silver Bear” of the Berlin International Film Festival, “Nika”, “White Elephant” of the Guild of Kinovedes and Film Critics. For a literary contribution to cinema, he was awarded the Prize. Ennio Flyiano “Silver Pegasus.”

The book “Cute Hans, Dear Peter” included eight filmovers of Alexander Mindadze, some of which are published for the first time. The author remains a supporter of the Russian school of film dramaturgy of the 1970s, which filled the lyrics of ordinary city life and gave her voice to every person. Over time, the Mindaze style acquires a unique, only inherent code, and artistic statements become foresighting upcoming events.

“The classic in his reverent respect for the national tradition, the modernist in the implacable integrity of the defiant literary writing, a postmodernist in an endless game with The viewer and his expectations-Mindazze in his own way re--called the language of the East European “Moral Axiety Cinema”, turning it into the cinema of ongoing anxiety. ”

Anton Dolin, film critic

“ Alexander Anatolyevich makes an impression very A whole person, and the same feeling arises from reading his scenarios. What he does is related to poetry, sometimes harsh, but still. The content and rhythm are equally important here. ”

Evgeny Tsyganov, actor