Gold medal named after SF Bondarchuk “For outstanding contribution to cinema” was awarded to People’s Artist of Russia, winner of two Silver Lion awards at the Venice Film Festival, Andrei Konchalovsky.
“I was walking down Gorky Street from school. I was 13 years old and Andrei Konchalovsky stopped me: “Come on, boy: it looks good on us!” – this is how the president of “The Golden Knight”, president of the Commission, spoke about her relationship with the famous Director of Culture, Science and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia, Nikolai Burlyaev.
Burlyaev’s acting debut took place in the early 1960s, when he starred in Konchalovsky’s course work “The Boy and the Dove.” Then Andrei Tarkovsky, on the recommendation of Konchalovsky, took the young actor to the film “Ivan’s Childhood.” At the 1962 Venice Film Festival, both films with the artist’s participation received awards: “Golden Lion of St. Mark” and “Bronze Lion of St. Mark.”
Now Burlyaev heads the Russian Cultural Front. Among the co-chairmen were many famous cultural figures, including Konchalovsky. According to the actor, they are the spiritual elite who have always worked for the state.
In his response, Konchalovsky noted that nature has simple laws, but a calm voice. Today it is difficult to hear this voice, but it is necessary that the light not go out. And all his life he tried to listen to this voice, said the director.
Among the laureates of the Golden Knight are the Honored Actor of the Russian Federation Alexander Oleshko, the writer Boris Lukin (he received a prize for a book dedicated to his son who died defending Mariupol), the singer Tatyana Petrova, the Theater National Academic Drama of the Republic of Belarus named after. Maxim Gorky (awarded for the play “The Idiot” based on Fyodor Dostoevsky, directed by Serbian playwright Ivana Zhigon).
It is no coincidence that the play “The Idiot” was performed in Belarus; From there, from the Pinsk district, the Dostoevsky family comes. The Russian classic has always been relevant, but today more than ever we need the spiritual sciences of its prince Myshkin, the superhero of Slavic civilization, Zhigon noted. Unlike Superman, who gives us his muscles, Myshkin gives people his heart.
Gold Medal named after AA Ivanov “For outstanding contribution to fine arts” was awarded to People’s Artist of Russia, painter, graphic artist and master of portraiture Viktor Shilov.
ND Mordvinov Gold Medal “For Outstanding Contribution to Theater Art” was received by People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and LPR Mikhail Vasilyevich Golubovich (posthumously), Yuri Levitan Gold Medal “For Outstanding Contribution to the Journalism of radio and television” was received by VGTRK’s Russian war correspondent Nikolai Dolgachev.
The Academic Orchestra of Russian Folk Instruments named after NN was awarded the gold diploma “For contribution to musical art.” Nekrasov VGTRK, who participated in the closing concert.
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