The Presidential Library will show and discuss the “Capitalism” movie shot by Vyacheslav Kornev

On January 20, 2016, at 3 pm the Presidential Library in cooperation with the Youth Center of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation invites the doc movie lovers on an hour-long film screening of Vyacheslav Kornev, PhD in philosophy, professor, a founder of the Kinolikbez Festival – in his movie author tries to give an assessment of capitalism as a system that levels and mutilates the human personality.

What are the money power, glossy images, consumptive demands in the construction phase of a full-fledged capitalism suppose to mean (capito is “understood” in Italian)? What is a capital has in common with a vampire? What turns a human being into a consumer? A protagonist of the investigation movie, one-of-a-kind young guy, asks these and some other questions, window-shopping along glaring facades and wandering over dark nooks and crannies of capitalism. The reasoning of the author is accompanied by current-day movie footages.

The screening will take place in the multimedia hall of the Presidential Library at 3 Senate Square, St. Petersburg, RF 190000.

Please, call to confirm your attendance at (812) 305 1635; +7 (921) 594 1613 or e-mail Elena Smolina at smolina@prlib.ru.

Media accreditation will last until 2 pm on the 19th of January.

Please fill out the attached application for accreditation form and email it to

Natalia Korkonosenko, the press service of the Presidential Library, korkonosenko@prlib.ru, phone: (812) 305 1621, ext. 265; mobile: +7 (921) 427 8648.

The attached form must specify a media name, a full name of media representative, a date and a place of rep’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 computers/iPads), and the contact phone numbers.

Please be advised, that the media representatives enter the Presidential Library through an entrance № 2 and strictly with passport or picture id.