AZ Museum, Moscow
The cinema program is dedicated to the Soviet fiction bio-pics about artists. The list includes masterpieces "Andrey Rublev", "Pirosmani" along with less known and unjustly forgotten pictures - "The Great Samoyed", "The Zodiac". Chronologically, all these movies were shot between 1959 and 1989 - mature years of two characters of the exhibition "Zverev / Mikhnov-Voitenko. Second, Multiplied by Eternity" - Anatoly Zverev and Evgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko.
Zodiac
USSR, 1985, 60 min
Режиссер: Yonas Vaytkus
Starred: Maya Plisetskaya, Grigory Gladky, Ingebora Dapkunayte, Pranas Pyaulocas
Production: Lithuanian Film Studios
The film tells us the story of an artist: his life in reflexion of art, but in parallel with universal human issues — dreams, pain and a search of happiness… The movie features paintings, music, literature by the Lithuanian artist and composer Mikaloyus Konstantinas Churlenis (1875-1911). Choreography by Maya Plisetskaya.
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The movie would be presented by Andrey Apostolov, film historian, Chief Editor of the Lenfilm Studio, program director of the filmfests "GorkyFest", "Window to Europe".
By metro
We recommend travelling to Mayakovskaya metro station. The walk to the AZ Museum will take around five minutes. After leaving the station, turn first to the right into the alley, then moving forward, at the first intersection, turn left to 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya street. Walk a few meters. AZ Museum will be on your right.
By car
There are paid parking spaces on either side of 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya street or in the nearest alleys. Parking is limited, and on weekends and public holidays, the parking lots may be full.