The Desert of Forbidden Art
Amanda Pope, Tchavdar Georgiev
- Uzbekistan, Russia, USA
- 2010
- 80min
- HD
- color/black and white
Synopsis
How does art survive in a time of oppression? In the Soviet Union, artists who stay true to their vision are executed or sent to mental hospitals or Gulags. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden works of art and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from the watchful eyes of the KGB. Now it is describes as “one of the most remarkable collections of 20th century Russian art.”
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Director
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Amanda Pope
Amanda Pope's credits over more than her 20 year long career include award-winning documentary, dramatic and social advocacy programs. Her award-winning public television documentaries: , and etc have all been broadcasted nationally on PBS. Most recently she directed about a pioneer woman aviator. Her program series, , documented grassroots reformers and emerging leaders in the former USSR. Amanda is an Associate Professor in production at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.The Legend of PanchoBarnesandtheHappyBottomRidingClub(2009)The Desert of Forbidden Art(2009)
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Tchavdar Georgiev
Tchavdar Georgiev has produced, associate produced or edited award-winning fiction and non-fiction films as well as TV programming for ABC, PBS, History Channel, National Geographic, Channel 1 Russia and MTV Russia. He was one of the editors on the documentary which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and the feature which won the MTV Russia awards for best film. The Desert of Forbidden Art(2009)
Credit
- ProducerAmanda Pope, Tchavdar Georgiev
- Cinematography Alexander DOLGIN, Gennadi BALITSKI
- Editor Tchavdar GEORGIEV
- Music Miriam CUTLER
- Sound Joe DZUBAN, Raj PATILL
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