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 critic 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 is unique. Each has their own perspective on cinema, their own professional secrets, and their own guiding principles in art.

«The feature of this book is that it can be read in different ways. Film enthusiasts will be able to take a look into the «kitchen» of the creative process, learn various stories from the filming 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 cinema, sharing different principles, and using different methods. We envisioned this book as a practical textbook on film directing, where each paragraph would be a lively meeting with a new author». — Vsevolod Korshunov, author of the book, film critic, editor, teacher at VGIK and the Moscow School of Cinema

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