Pavel Lungin
{{short description|Russian film director}}
{{Expand Russian|topic=bio|date=April 2019}}
{{Infobox person
|name=Pavel Lungin
|native_name=Па́вел Семёнович Лунги́н
|native_name_lang=rus
|image=Pavel Lungin.jpg
|image_size=220
|birth_name=Pavel Semyonovich Lungin
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1949|7|12|df=y}}
|birth_place= Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
|death_date=
|death_place=
|occupation=Film director, screenwriter
|spouse=Elena Lungina
|children=2
}}
Pavel Semyonovich Lungin ({{langx|ru|Па́вел Семёнович Лунги́н}}; born 12 July 1949) is a Russian film director.{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2009|place=US|isbn=978-0-8108-6072-8|pages=422–423}}{{Cite web|url=https://ria.ru/culture/20090712/176923910.html|publisher=RIA Novosti|title=Павел Семенович Лунгин. Биографическая справка|date=12 July 2009}}{{Cite web|url=https://russia.tv/person/show/person_id/6044/|publisher=Russia-1|title=Павел Лунгин}} He is sometimes credited as Pavel Loungine (as in the American release of Tycoon). Lungin was awarded the distinction People's Artist of Russia in 2008.{{cite web|date=20 November 2008|url=http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/28340|script-title=ru:Указ Президента Российской Федерации "О присвоении почётного звания "Народный артист Российской Федерации" Лунгину П. С."|language=ru|publisher=Президент России. Официальное интернет-представительство|access-date=2010-01-26}}
Life and career
Born on 12 July 1949 in Moscow, Lungin is the son of the scriptwriter {{Interlanguage link|Semyon Lungin|ru|Лунгин, Семён Львович}} and linguist Lilianna Lungina. He later attended Moscow State University at the Mathematics and Applied Linguistics of the Philological Faculty, from which he graduated in 1971. In 1980 he completed the High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (Mikhail Lvovsky's Workshop).{{cite web
|url = https://tass.ru/encyclopedia/person/lungin-pavel-semenovich
|title = Лунгин, Павел Семенович
|author =
|language = ru
|date = 2019
|publisher = tass.ru
|accessdate = January 10, 2023
}}
Lungin worked primarily as a scriptwriter until given the opportunity to direct Taxi Blues at age 40. The film starred well-known musician Pyotr Mamonov.{{cite web|date=27 July 2007|url=http://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/producer/lungin/index1.html|script-title=ru:Биография Павла Лунгина|language=ru|publisher=People's History|access-date=2010-01-26}} For the film he received the Best Director Prize at 1990 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/163/year/1990.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Taxi Blues |access-date=2009-08-06|work=festival-cannes.com}} That same year he took up residence in France, while making films in and about Russia with French producers. Two years later, his next film Luna Park would also compete at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/11/year/1992.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Luna Park |access-date=2009-08-15|work=festival-cannes.com}}
In 1993 he was a member of the jury at the 18th Moscow International Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1993 |title=18th Moscow International Film Festival (1993) |access-date=2013-03-09 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403093721/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1993 |archive-date=2014-04-03 }}
He was the librettist for Nikolai Karetnikov's opera Till Eulenspiegel (written 1983) and Karetnikov's oratorio The Mystery of St. Paul.
At the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, Pavel Lungin's film The Wedding was awarded the Special Jury Prize for the best ensemble cast.{{Cite web|url=https://ria.ru/spravka/20080514/107314649.html|publisher=RIA Novosti|title=Советские/российские фильмы - лауреаты Каннского фестиваля. Справка|date=14 May 2008}}
In 2001 Pavel Lungin began shooting his new film Tycoon based on {{Interlanguage link|Julii Dubov's|ru|Дубов, Юлий Анатольевич}} novel The Big Ration. The picture was a drama set during the Mikhail Gorbachev years about five students who jump on the private capitalism movement. The film was released in Russia in October 2002.{{cite web
|url = https://www.forbes.ru/forbeslife/475579-dzivs-i-vuster-i-mnogo-oligarhov-pat-fil-mov-i-serialov-o-zizni-bogatyh-ludej
|title = «Дживс и Вустер» и много олигархов: пять фильмов и сериалов о жизни богатых людей
|author = Никита Солдатов
|language = ru
|date = August 30, 2022
|work = forbes.ru
|accessdate = January 11, 2023
}}
Lungin made the black comedy Poor Relatives in 2005, winner of the main prize of the Kinotavr 2005 Festival,{{cite web
|url = https://www.1tv.ru/news/2005-06-13/233264-film_pavla_lungina_bednye_rodstvenniki_stal_favoritom_festivalya_kinotavr
|title = Фильм Павла Лунгина «Бедные родственники» стал фаворитом фестиваля «Кинотавр»
|author =
|language = ru
|date = June 13, 2005
|publisher = 1tv.ru
|accessdate = January 11, 2023
}} and a television miniseries based on Nikolai Gogol's works, titled The Case of "Dead Souls", which premiered on NTV in September 2005. Both Poor Relatives and The Case of "Dead Souls" starred Konstantin Khabensky.{{cite web
|url = https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/614126
|title = "Тюремная жизнь Ходорковского дает основание для захватывающего фильма"
|author = Андрей Плахов
|language = ru
|date = October 3, 2005
|publisher = kommersant.ru
|accessdate = January 11, 2023
}}
In 2006 he directed the religious film The Island which also had Mamonov in the lead role. The film closed the 63rd Venice International Film Festival and was praised by the Russian Orthodox Church leader Alexis II.{{cite web
|url = https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/693420
|title = Павел Лунгин: это просто фильм о том, что Бог есть
|author = Андрей Плахов
|language = ru
|date = July 28, 2006
|publisher = kommersant.ru
|accessdate = January 11, 2023
}}
He was the president of the jury at the 31st Moscow International Film Festival in 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2009 |title=31st Moscow International Film Festival (2009) |access-date=2013-06-02 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421050940/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=2009 |archive-date=2013-04-21 }} In the same year he made the film Tsar with Pyotr Mamonov and Oleg Yankovskiy. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/10877371/year/2009.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Tsar |access-date=2009-05-17|work=festival-cannes.com}}
In March 2014 he signed a letter in support of the position of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on Russia's military intervention in Ukraine and Crimea.{{cite web|title=Деятели культуры России — в поддержку позиции Президента по Украине и Крыму|url=http://mkrf.ru/press-tsentr/novosti/ministerstvo/deyateli-kultury-rossii-v-podderzhku-pozitsii-prezidenta-po-ukraine-i-krymu|publisher=Ministry for Culture of Russian Federation|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140311194202/mkrf.ru/press-tsentr/novosti/ministerstvo/deyateli-kultury-rossii-v-podderzhku-pozitsii-prezidenta-po-ukraine-i-krymu|archive-date=2014-03-11}} For this he was banned from entering Ukraine.[http://www.unian.info/society/1608241-sbu-issues-entry-ban-against-140-russian-artists.html SBU issues entry ban against 140 Russian artists], UNIAN (5 November 2016)
[http://tass.com/world/910576 Ukraine’s State Security Service bans 140 Russian cultural figures from entering country], TASS news agency (5 November 2016) Crimea is since March 2014 under Russian occupation.{{cite news|last=Gutterman |first=Steve |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-idUSBREA1Q1E820140318 |title=Putin signs Crimea treaty, will not seize other Ukraine regions |date=18 March 2014 |work=Reuters |access-date=2014-03-26}}
Lungin directed the thriller The Queen of Spades in 2016. The picture is about opera singers preparing for a performance in the Queen of Spades.
From 2015 he is the director of political thriller television series Homeland, a localized adaptation of Prisoners of War.
In 2019, along with his son Aleksander, Lungin won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Screenplay at the Shanghai International Film Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://www.siff.com/a/2019-06-23/3526.html|title=Winners of the 22nd SIFF Golden Goblet Awards|website=www.siff.com|access-date=2020-02-28}}
Filmography (as director)
=Films=
- Taxi Blues (1990)
- Luna Park (1992)
- Lifeline (1996)
- The Wedding (2000)
- Tycoon (2002)
- Poor Relatives (2005)
- The Island (2006)
- Branch of Lilac (2007) (transliterated from original Vetka sireni)
- Tsar (2009)
- The Conductor (2012)
- The Queen of Spades (2016)
- Leaving Afghanistan (2019)
- Esau (2019)
=TV=
- The Case of "Dead Souls" (2005)
- ''Homeland (2015)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0526732}}
- [http://russia-ic.com/culture_art/theatre/277/ Islander Pavel Lungin]
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{{Prix de la mise en scene 1980-1999}}
{{Nika Award for Best Director}}
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Category:High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors alumni
Category:Honorary members of the Russian Academy of Arts
Category:Academicians of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences "Nika"
Category:Russian film directors
Category:Soviet film directors
Category:Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners