Vasya (film)
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Vasya is a 2002 American documentary film
written, directed and produced by Andrei Zagdansky
. The film tells the story of Russian
underground
artist
Vasily Sitnikov
, who was declared insane in early 1940’s by the Soviet
authorities. A man without a passport, in and out of mental asylums, he was the key and often "larger than life" figure of the nonconformist art movement in the Soviet Union.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
written, directed and produced by Andrei Zagdansky
Andrei Zagdansky
Andrei Zagdansky is an American and Russian/Ukrainian independent documentary filmmaker.-Biography:Zagdansky attended Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Arts, graduating in 1979. He worked as a film director for Kievnauchfilm studio in Kiev from 1981 through 1988, and at film studio Thursday from...
. The film tells the story of Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
underground
Underground art
Underground art, as with underground music and underground film, is a term that seeks to describe art forms that are aloof to the mainstream art world, are illegal, taboo, unconventional, rebellious or revolutionary...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
Vasily Sitnikov
Vasily Sitnikov
Vasily Yakovlevich Sitnikov was a Russian painter. He was one of the most vivid “landmark” figures of the post-war Soviet Nonconformist Art of Russia, and a living legend in Moscow artistic milieu....
, who was declared insane in early 1940’s by the Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
authorities. A man without a passport, in and out of mental asylums, he was the key and often "larger than life" figure of the nonconformist art movement in the Soviet Union.
Additional Credits
- Animation by Signe BaumaneSigne BaumaneSigne Baumane is a Latvian animator, fine artist, illustrator and writer, currently living and working in New York City. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she was a 2005 Fellow in Film of the New York Foundation for the Arts...
- Original score by Alexander GoldsteinAlexander GoldsteinAlexander Goldstein , also credited as Aleksandr Goldshteyn and Aleksandr Goldstein in films, is a Russian-American music composer, conductor, songwriter, record producer, film producer, director, editor and is the founder of ABG World and SportMusic.com...
- AZ Films L.L.S. and Fora Film
- © 2002 AZ Films L.L.C.