On April 28, 2017, at 3 pm the Presidential Library will conduct a screening and discussion of the documentary entitled “Freak of the imagination. Gaito Gazdanov.”
Produced by the Nart-Art studio movie is featuring an outstanding writer, 20th-century philosopher, emigrant, member of the French Resistance movement, Ossete by origin, Russian by birth, French by his citizenship - Gaito Ivanovich Gazdanov (1903-1971).
The hour-long film was created on the basis of reliable evidence and archival documents, restoring the life and creative way of Gazdanov. A need for creation a documentary about a personality of the émigré writer raised from the growing research interest in current learning process of Gazdanov. The author and director Rafael Gasparyants and the operator Mikhail Nemyssky worked on the creation of the movie. It is assumed that at the next in turn scheduled session of the Cinema Club there will be a producer of the movie of Temina Tuaeva (Vladikavkaz).
The film has drawn the life and creative path of Gaito Gazdanov, which guided him as an emigrant across many countries and continents. He was born in St. Petersburg, but a large group of Caucasian relatives considered him theirs own. In 1919, at the age of sixteen, Gaito entered the Volunteer Army of Wrangel, fought in the Crimea. During the retreat of the army Gazdanov was first in Gallipoli, then - in Constantinople. The first story of Gaito entitled “The Hotel of the Future” was written there.
In 1923 Gazdanov arrived in Paris and remain there for thirteen years without leaving. He has done any work to make a living: a loader, a locomotive washer, a worker at the Citroen car factory, for many years he was a taxi driver. Four out of the nine novels and twenty-eight out of the thirty-seven stories were written in Paris. The rest took the next thirty years.
The Cinema Club will meet in the multimedia hall of the Presidential Library at 3 Senatskaya Square, St. Petersburg, Russia 191000.
Please, confirm your presence over the phone 305 1635; 8 921 594 1613 or by e-mailing Elena Smolina at smolina@prlib.ru.
The media accreditation will last until 2 pm on April 27, 2017.
Please email Maria Smirnova, Press Service of the Presidential Library, phone (812) 305 1621, ext. 233, mobile: +7 (981) 894 4770 at smirnovamk@prlib.ru with your application for accreditation in the attached form.
Your application on the attached form must specify a media name, a full name of media representative, a date and a place of representative’s birth, full passport or picture id details (series, number, when and by what body it was issued, place of residence), a carry-on equipment (including personal and tablet computer/iPad), and the contact phone numbers.
Please be advised, that guests enter the Presidential Library through an entrance № 1, and the media representatives - through an entrance № 2 with no exceptions upon presentment of passport or picture id.
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