Russia, 2024, color, 75 min.
Director: Sergey Lando
SCREENWRITER – Sergey Lando
DOP – Sergey Lando
MUSIC – Viktor Sobolenko
A film about the life and work of cinematographer Sergey Astakhov, who shot over 70 feature films. The secret to his success lies in a unique combination of artistic intuition and the talent of an engineer-inventor. The film portrays Sergey Astakhov in a variety of situations – on set, building his house, constructing a chapel, at a children's Christmas celebration... Everywhere, his energy and love for life make him irresistibly charismatic.
Was born in 1956 in Rybinsk. Graduated from VGIK as a cinematographer (1987). Director of photography at Lenfilm Studio, worked on films such as Giselle’s Mania, Through the Back Door, Day of the Beast, and others, as well as a number of documentaries at the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, the Russian Guild of Non-Fiction Film and Television, the Russian Guild of Cinematographers, and Imago. Professor at SPbGUKiT.
Genius loci, 2003
Ulyana Lopatkina, or Dancing on Weekdays and Holidays, 2006
St. Petersburg Dolls, 2011
Sirin, 2014
The Heavenly Pianist, 2017
Sergey Skvortsov’s Lost Ticket, 2019
Portrait of an Artist in a Historical Context, 2022
Inna Olevskaya, 2023
