Vasya (film)

Vasya is a 2002 American documentary film written, directed and produced by Andrei Zagdansky. The film tells the story of Russian underground artist Vasily Sitnikov, who was declared insane in early 1940s by the Soviet authorities. A man without a passport, in and out of mental asylums, he was the key and often "larger than life" figure of the nonconformist art movement in the Soviet Union. In 1975 fearing prosecution and another involuntary commitment to a mental asylum he immigrated to Austria and then to the United States. He died virtually unknown in 1987 in NYC.

Vasya
Directed byAndrei Zagdansky
Produced byAndrei Zagdansky (Producer)
Andrei Razumovsky (Co-producer)
Written byAndrei Zagdansky
CinematographyYevgeni Smirnov
Edited byAndrei Zagdansky
Distributed byFacets Multimedia Inc.
Release date
  • 2002 (2002)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageRussian
English

A number of prominent artists appear in the film, such as Dmitri Plavinsky Vladimir Titov, Kevin Clarke, poet and publisher Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky and art collector Norton Dodge, who has amassed one of the largest collections of Soviet-era art outside the Soviet Union.

Additional Credits
gollark: It apparently had other issues, like very slow memory access in the cell-y bit.
gollark: I see.
gollark: Isn't that basically GPUs?
gollark: ARM isn't very RISC any more. RISC-V is maybe sort of going to be usable for that eventually.
gollark: I mean, it's 4 cores of each, the only real difference is the HDD.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.