Leviathan. Analysis on bones. Markov M.

Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film “Leviathan” is not just a “film”, but a truly large event of Russian cinema, one of the largest creative successes of the new century. Having caused fierce disputes in their homeland, not completely subsided after the premiere, the picture received the widest international recognition: from the award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best scenario to the nomination for the Academy of the American Academy "Oscar". The secret of this success - and decided to ask the director himself about all the nuances of the creation of Leviathan. The conversation was based on the principle of almost a chill analysis of the film with the central, now and then the repeating question: why was this frame shot in this way, and not otherwise? Why did the director choose just such a perspective, just such a number? Did he control every acting gesture, every camera movement - or there was a place for improvisation, and maybe even for chance?.. In other words, what was done so that literally every frame of the picture became unique? Tell me, Andrei Petrovich, how is the real movie created?..

six days of conversation, they contained a detailed story not only about one particular film, but about the entire creative cuisine of Andrei Zvyagintsev. The world-famous director gave a truly unique master class, telling with the maximum details about the methods of his work-about how the script is created, how the visual solution and the material world of the future picture are discussed in the preparatory period, how relations with artists are built on the site... At the same time, it could not but come in to life in Russia, about the position of man in the world, about life values ​​and ideals - about everything that Leviathan actually tells about.

The result was by no means a “technical” analysis of the movie that would be exclusively interested in professionals, but a deep, very personal interview of a bright, talented person who worries about his heroes to the same extent as he worries And for all their compatriots.