The Calling of a Director. Conversations with Directors of Russian Cinema

The Moscow School of Cinema and Bombora Publishing present! The book «The Calling of a Director. Conversations with Directors of Russian Cinema» — is a true kaleidoscope of contemporary domestic cinema. Film scholar Vsevolod Korshunov met with twelve outstanding directors of our time and talked to them about art, craft, and the industry as a whole.
Each of them is a director, but each one is unique. Each has their own view on cinema, their own professional secrets, and their own guidelines in art.

«The feature of this book is that it can be read in different ways. Film lovers will be able to peek into the «kitchen» of the creative process, learn various stories from the set, and see how a film is born. And film school students will get to attend twelve master classes by very different authors, making different films, sharing different principles, and using different methodologies. We conceived this book as a practical textbook on directing, where each paragraph is a lively meeting with a new author». — Vsevolod Korshunov, author of the book, film scholar, editor, and lecturer at VGIK and the Moscow School of Cinema

The book includes interviews with directors:
Zhora Kryzhovnikov («Call DiCaprio!», «Relatives» etc.),
Valery Todorovsky («The Land of the Deaf», «Hipsters» etc.),
Boris Khlebnikov («Aritmia», «An Ordinary Woman» etc.),
Andrei Proshkin («Doctor Richter», «The Survivors» etc.),
Oksana Bychkova («Piter FM», «Another Year» etc.),
Ivan I. Tverdovsky («Correction Class», «The Conference» etc.),
Anna Melikyan («Star», «Fairy» etc.),
Pavel Bardin («Club», «Russia 88» etc.),
Natalia Meshchaninova («Penguins of My Mother», «Alice Can't Wait» etc.),
Alexey Popogrebskiy («Koktebel», «Optimists» etc.),
Alexey Fedorchenko («Oatmeal», «Anna's War» etc.),
Marina Razbezkina («Harvest Time», «Yar» etc.).