
Birthday:
09-30-1937
(87 years)
Birthplace:
Kiev, Ukraine, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine)
Biography
Valentin Silvestrov is a Ukrainian composer and pianist.
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V. Silvestrov
Act like self
event2022 star_border 8
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There is a rumor in the Kyiv musical community: once upon a time, in private conversation, Queen Elizabeth II mentioned Valentyn Silvestrov as one of her favorite composers of the modern age. The Royal Press Office hasn’t confirmed it, so no one knows for sure. But the stature of Silvestrov justifies this rumor. Highly respected by the world’s best music professionals, he remains a mystery for a wide audience. The documentary is far from a traditional biopic about a prominent person. It is an observation, a confession and, most of all, a story of great talent set against the backdrop of uncertain times.
The Birth of Music. The Composer Valentin Silvestrov
Act like Self
event1991
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This is a film about an outstanding composer of our time, unknown to a wide range of listeners in our country.
A Cherry Orchard
Music
event2022
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Short animated musical performance of a work by Valentin Silvestrov based on Taras Shevchenko's verses, combined with animation of each line of the poem by different young directors.
The Piano Tuner
Original Music Composer
event2004 star_border 6.6
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A young piano tuner befriends two rich old-ladies, and plots, with the help of his girlfriend, to betray their trust and steal from them.
Punchy Man
Music
event1980
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The new young director of the car depot shows energy and the ability to come to an agreement with everyone for the common good, but his principle “you - for me, I - for you” has not yet been approved by the car depot team...
No Great Loss...
Original Music Composer
event1983 star_border 5.5
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Six people get stuck in a lift. No one comes to help them, as the dispatcher who shut down the lift and all the neighbours are passionately watching a football match being broadcast. At first, the characters in the film fight, but when the lift doors open, they don't want to get out...
White Clouds
Original Music Composer
event1968 star_border 8
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A man is notified of his father's imminent death. He travels to his father in a remote Ukrainian village, recalling his childhood during the disastrous forced collectivization and artificial famine (Holodomor) of the 1930s by the Soviet regime. The film was heavily cut due to censorship by the Soviet Government.
Garden of Gethsemane
Music
event1993
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Based on a novel by Ivan Bahryanyi. About the terrible years of repression in Ukraine in the 1930s.
Untouched by the West
Music
event2002 star_border 6.8
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Loosely based on Diégo Brosset’s novel, set in the Sahara at the beginning of the twentieth century. A man of the desert is adopted by some hunters and becomes a highly respected guide while trying to escape colonization.
Getting to Know the Big Wide World
Original Music Composer
event1978 star_border 4.9
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On a rough and tumble construction site for a new factory, the conversation flows and love blooms for trio Lyuba, Misha, and Kolya. In the liminal space of their workplace, they build material and intangible connections.
Two in One
Original Music Composer
event2007 star_border 2.2
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This celebrated director's "exquisite cruelty" appears front and center when the death of a stage actor turns a theatrical drama into a real one. Two in One's two parts, "Stagehands" and "Woman of a Lifetime," celebrate the psychological richness that lurks just beneath the surface of banal reality - if murderous stagehands, lascivious fathers and vengeful daughters can be described as banal.
Chekhovian Motifs
Original Music Composer
event2002 star_border 4.4
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The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.
The Rooks
Original Music Composer
event1984 star_border 4
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Victor Grach and Leonid Osadchy are dangerous criminals. Considering himself a strong and independent person, who is allowed everything, Victor wants to see his younger brother Shurka as well. And he, obeying the authority of Victor, becomes an involuntary participant in serious crimes and, in the end, is in the dock. A sentence is not passed for a long time, because it is important for a judge to understand the degree of guilt of each of the brothers, to get to the bottom of the truth, to find out what turned ordinary guys into robbers and killers.
Quarantine
Original Music Composer
event1968 star_border 6
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During an experiment, an accident occurs at the Institute of Epidemiology. To prevent the virus of a deadly disease from penetrating the walls of the laboratory, five employees remain in quarantine. In this situation, people reveal themselves in the most unexpected ways.
Notre Musique
Music
event2004 star_border 6.7
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A three-chapter (Hell, Purgatory and Paradise) meditation on the city of Sarajevo in the wake of the Bosnian war, on Palestine and Israel, and on war itself.
Hope for Peace Concert from the Frauenkirche - Dresden
Compositor
event2022
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United in their support for Ukraine, violinist Daniel Hope and Ukrainian pianist Alexey Botvinov perform a concert for peace from Dresden's frauenkirche. Composers featured include Johann Sebastian Bach , the Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov and Russians Alfred Schnittke and Sergei Rachmaninov.
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