Lenfilm

“Lenfilm” was a production unit of the Cinema of the Soviet Union, with its own film studio, located in Saint Petersburg, Russia, formerly Leningrad, R.S.F.S.R. Today OAO “Kinostudiya Lenfilm” is a corporation with its stakes shared between private owners and several private film studios, which are operating on the premises. Since October 2012, the Chairman of the board of directors is Fyodor Bondarchuk.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lenfilm became a quasi-private film production company of Russia, retaining its name in spite of renaming of the city of Leningrad to St. Petersburg.

Lenfilm is a place that is tightly connected with the world celebrities, such as those mentioned and Jane Fonda, Maximilian Schell, Marina Vlady, Julia Ormond, Michael Caine, William Hurt, Sophie Marceau, Sean Bean, Sandrine Bonnaire, Gérard Philipe, and with many great Russians, such as: Vladimir Mayakovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Ney, Kirill Lavrov, Daniil Granin, Pavel Kadochnikov, Aleksandr Demyanenko, Sergey Kuryokhin, and many others.

In 2004 “Kinostudiya Lenfilm” was re-organized into a privately owned company.

In 2007 “Kinostudiya Lenfilm” together with Apple IMC opened the “Apple” post-production training centre for filmmakers, where Apple computers are used for editing and special effects, as well as for training and certification of film editors in Final Cut Pro 5.1 and other Apple programs.

Selected filmography

2014 Catherine the Great

2013 Hard to be a God

2008 Paper Soldier

1996 Anna Karenina, directed by Bernard Rose, drama starring Sophie Marceau and Sean Bean, with Alfred Molina and Mia Kirshner

1990 Taxi Blues co-production

1987 Dead Man’s Letters (sci-fi)

1983 Painful Indifference, directed by Alexander Sokurov

1982 Golos, directed by Ilya Averbakh

1978 The Lonely Voice of Man, directed by Alexander Sokurov

1976 Twenty Days Without War, directed by Aleksei German

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