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The program “Closed Screening” with host Alexander Gromov was on Channel One from 2007 to 2013. All the films shown in it are designed for a deep and wide audience, as the author of the television talk show himself said.
For the attention of film lovers are presented closed screening films, list which is below.
10 Portraying the victim | 2006
Black comedy by Kirill Serebrennikov “Playing the victim” (2006) opens the top ten closed screening films. The young man Valya, after graduating from university, gets a job in the police for the sake of earning money, where he portrays the victims of crimes during investigative experiments. The investigative team, consisting of a charismatic captain, ensign Lyuda armed with a video camera, and a dumb sergeant, daily takes the defendants to the crime scene, where it is supposed to restore the picture of the tragedy …
9. Caesar must die | year 2012
“Caesar must die” (2012) – a closed screening film awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar” is coming to an end, the curtain, a standing ovation. The lights go out, the actors leave the stage and … return to the cells of the Rebibia maximum security prison in Rome. The camera captured Fabio Cavalli’s grandiose experiment in staging a play with prisoners, many of whom are serving life sentences. The universal language of Shakespeare helps new actors understand their roles, re-learn friendship and betrayal, power, deceit and violence – first in the play, and then in their lives. And although the stage of this play is a prison, in the film itself it surprisingly disappears …
8. Caesar must die | year 2012
“Rita’s last story” (2012) is a closed screening film directed by Renata Litvinova. The heroines are three women: Renata Litvinova, Olga Kuzina Tatyana Drubich. The character of Litvinova, the Angel of Death (in the earthly world of people bears the name of Tatyana Neubivko), according to the plot, works in the morgue. A woman in her early thirties, Marguerite Gauthier (Spanish Olga Kuzina), falls ill and is admitted to a hospital for treatment. Her friend Nadia works as a doctor in this hospital, and, having learned the diagnosis of her friend, she cannot decide to tell her the sad news, she begins to hide and “drink strong drinks”. The dying Rita is cared for by nurse Tanya Neubivko, who works in the “morgue department”, she is essentially an angel of death and holds a high position in the afterlife. Tanya Neubivko moves between two worlds – the living and the dead – with the help of portals and ancient buildings. Three women begin to prepare for a great event – Rita’s transition to another world. Rita announces her will, leaving everything she owns to her beloved Nikolai Serebryakov (Spanish: Nikolai Khomeriki). He is looking for an answer to the question of whether there is life after death, and tries to dissuade death from taking his beloved.
7. Melancholy | 2011
“Melancholy” (2011) – private screening drama by Lars von Trier with Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The film was awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for Best Actress for Kirsten Dunst. The events of the film take place in the days leading up to the catastrophe. The first part is dedicated to Justine’s wedding, which quickly cools down to the celebration, which causes misunderstanding of relatives and guests. The heroine of the second part is Claire, Justine’s sister. At first, Claire tends to a clinically depressed Justine and at the same time fears reports of the approach of the mysterious planet Melancholia. Gradually, as the planet approaches, Justine and Claire switch roles. Now a panicked Claire needs to be taken care of. Desperate, she prepares to face the inevitable with her sister and son.
6. Duška | 2007
“Dushka” (2007) – closed screening film directed by Jos Stelling. At a Russian film festival, screenwriter Bob meets a man called Dushka in the film, and by the way, not seriously, invites him to visit him in Amsterdam. When one day Dushka comes to Bob, he stubbornly cannot remember what kind of person he is and where he comes from, and in every possible way tries to kick him out of his apartment. Darling unceremoniously tries to get back and feels at home in the apartment, not embarrassed by the girl Bob is courting.
5. White ribbon | year 2009
“White Ribbon” (2009) is a closed screening film by Michael Haneke. The picture has a subtitle – “German story about children.” The film was twice awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The picture describes the events of 1913, taking place in Germany. In a completely prosperous German village, outwardly everything is quiet and decent. But one day in this “bear corner” sinister, mysterious events begin to occur, such as violence committed by unknown persons over a mentally retarded boy. Suspicion falls on the children of the strict local pastor, who from infancy wear white bandages “as a symbol of purity and innocence, and as a result, lies, evil, craving for violence sprout in their souls as a sign of protest.” A young village teacher tries to figure it all out, but almost every villager has their own dark secrets, and no one wants them to come out. Almost every character has two sides – one external, familiar and “decent”, and the other internal, weighed down by some secret or unseemly action.
4. First squad | year 2009
Animated film of closed screening “First squad” (2009) is a joint work of Russia, Japan and Canada. The action of the cartoon takes place in 1942. A detachment of pioneer heroes enters into battle with the fascist invaders and the ghosts of the knights of the Livonian Order, summoned from the underworld by Nazi magicians from the infamous Ahnenerbe organization. Of course, the main characters are not simple pioneers. They were trained in the Sixth Division of the Military Intelligence Directorate. This department deals with parapsychology and the occult. And now they are ready to defend their homeland on a front invisible to mere mortals.
3. Last Sunday | year 2009
“Last Sunday” (2009) is a closed screening film, which is a joint work of Germany, Russia and Great Britain. The film was twice nominated for an Oscar. The film is based on the biographical novel by Jay Parini about the last year of the life of the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Having lived a long life, tired of alienation and enmity in relations with his wife Sofya Andreevna, on the night of October 28, 1910, at five in the morning, with 39 rubles in his pocket, Leo Tolstoy secretly left home. Having caught a cold on the way, he fell ill with pneumonia and found his last refuge at the Astapovo station.
2. Between | 2011
“Between” (2011) – Francis Ford Coppola’s private screening film. Crippled witch writer Hall Baltimore arrives in the small town of Swan Valley. Local sheriff Bobby Lagrange draws his attention to the mysterious murder of a young girl that occurred recently in the city, and offers to write a joint work based on this case. At night, in a dream, a ghost comes to Baltimore and talks about the massacre of children that took place in these places many years ago. Impressed by this dream, the writer decides to start his own investigation of the events taking place in the town … The film contains references to the work of Edgar Allan Poe and many quotes from his works.
1. Missing person | 2010
“Missing” (2010) – a film of a closed screening by Anna Fenchenko. The plot of the film tells about a programmer who is quite satisfied with self-isolation from the big world. He works at home, he has no family, and relations with relatives living on the floor above are very strained. He is no longer young and it is convenient for him to live in his own world, which he created for himself. But one day, by a strange coincidence, he loses what little he had. Having lost his apartment, job and passport, but having managed to maintain his freedom, he plunges into a new world for himself. Having escaped from problems, he is missing, and he simply has nowhere to return. Will he be able to find himself in a new world and overcome all the trials that fate has prepared for him?