Carmen Film/Carmen Video Company

Что такое Другое Кино?

Company History

Carmen’s main activities are focused on local distribution of the most interesting and exciting offerings from the film industry, both domestic and foreign.
Our main aim is to explore the market and to identify its newest and most promising areas, in order to introduce these to a wider audience.

Carmen Film started business as a festival agent. Among its projects were established Russian festivals: «Legal cinema» -Moscow 1993-94, “Fire-bird”, the first CIS and Baltic States Festival Of Arts - Los Angeles 1995, the festival of young cinema “Kino Forum” -Suzdal 1995 and Sochi 1997, the Russian showbiz award “Kumir”1998-99. In 2000-01 Carmen Film acted as official PR-agent for the European Film Panorama, supported by the EU and Eurimages.

As a distribution company Carmen Film earned its popularity and respect in Russia releasing the best domestic films – such as “Moscow nights” by V. Todorovsky, “Makarov” by V. Khotinenko, “Zhizel`s mania” by A.Uchitel.

In 1996 in cooperation with Premiere Film Company Carmen launched a new distribution venture Carmen Premier. The new structure became the exclusive distribution agent for Warner Bros. and Miramax International. Among the films released then were “Good Will Hunting”, “Lethal weapon 4”, “Devil`s Advocate”, “Pulp fiction”, “Jackie Brown”.

After the financial crisis, that struck Russia in 1998, Carmen Film decided to explore a new, completely undiscovered field in the Russian cinema industry – foreign Art House cinema. Together with the Russian-Swedish company Maywin Media we were the first to release international quality art-films. Such titles as Tom Tykwer`s “Run, Lola, run”, Takeshi Kitano`s “Fireworks”, Michael Haneke`s “Funny games”, Lucas Moodysson`s “Fucking Amal” and the three first features of the Dogme-95 manifesto (directed by Thomas Vinterberg, Lars von Trier and Soren Cragh-Jacobsen).

Further on, in 2000 Carmen founded a new brand called “Alternative cinema, under which (in alliance with distributor Intercinema Art) were released Lars von Trier’s “Dancer in the dark”, Wong Kar-wai`s “In the mood for love”, Francois Ozone’s “Sitcom”, “Criminal lovers”, “Water drops on burning rocks” and “Under the sand”.

Carmen Film entered 2002 with a renewed acquisitions policy. We presented an exciting new package of “positive cinema”, which was enthusiastically received by audiences as a welcome escape from the stresses of everyday life. Among the films were masterpieces by acclaimed directors (Vicente Aranda`s JUANA LA LOCA, Joaquin Oristrell`s NO SHAME), but our main objective is to discover new names for Russia which included Christopher Boe (“Resonstruction), Gregg Araki (“Mysterious skin”), Chen Kaige (“Together”).

We appreciate the cooperation of our current international partners: Celluloid Dreams, Fortissimo Film Sales , Roissy Films, British Film Institute, KWA, Lightning Entertainment, Mercure distribution, Nordisk Film Sales, Peppermint, Sogepaq S.A., TF-1, Trust Film Sales, Granada International, Aura Entertainment, Columbia Tristar and everyone. We look forward to continuing our existing fruitful relationships, as well as to working with new companies.

Our activities in Russia are not confined solely to distribution. We also organise regular festivals and special events, which help us promote our films.

Current goals- DVD distribution

In 2003 Carmen setting up a new company - Carmen video, which is focusing primarily on DVD-distribution of quality modern and classical cinema under the “Alternative cinema” brand.

An “Authors collections” section includes classical films by acclaimed world directors like Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-Wai, Jim Jarmusch, Emir Kusturica, Pedro Almodovar, Francois Truffaut, K. Kieslowski, Peter Greenaway, Robert Altman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Zefirelli, Eric Rohmer.

There is also a section “Unusual cinema” that is dedicated to all kinds of avant-garde, trash (we release Troma films) , and expressionist films. There are separate collections of documentary Art House films (including “Marlene Dietrich: Her own song”, “Year of the Horse” by Jim Jarmush, The Blues Project by Martin Scorcese, The World Cinema History project by The British Film Institute) and outstanding classical shorts (Leur premiers films by acclaimed French classics).

A special brand is the DVD edition of TV-series (mostly detective stories)- we have already released classic British (and not only British) series, such as Jeeves and Wooster, Poirot, Miss Marple, Benny Hill, Thin Blue Line, Megre, Rex, Elizabeth I, Rowan Atkinson Show, Inspector Morse and many others on DVD.

Our main partners on this front are BBC Worldwide, Granada, Fremantly, All3 Media, Target, Carrere Group.

We look forward to a fruitful cooperation!

Contact information:

Carmen Film/Carmen Video

Mila Rozanova

Vice president, International projects, acquisitions
Tel. (US) +1 925 3249130

Olga Filipuk

Head of Acquisitions
Tel (Moscow) +7 495 6612877 ext. 23

Moscow office: 123242 Zoologicheskaya 1 suite 210 Moscow, Russia

Другое кино. Космос

Место назначения - луна

(Destination Moon, США, 1950, Реж. Ирвинг Пичел)

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Передача посвящена ленте, с которой начался "космический бум" в послевоенном американском кинематографе. Фильм оказался кассовым хитом, удостоился "Оскара" за спецэффекты и задал стандарты качества кинофантастики на следующее десятилетие.

Ракета Х-М

(Rocketship X-M, США, 1950, реж. Курт Ньюман)

Рассказ о фильмах-предупреждениях. Сегодня творение Курта Ньюмана у кого-то вызовет смех, но по тем временам это был настоящий шедевр. По кассовым сборам он даже превзошел "Место назначения - Луна".

Планета бурь

(СССР, Леннаучфильм, 1961, Реж. Павел Клушанцев)

Стэнли Кубрик и Джордж Лукас называли Павла Клушанцева своим "крестным отцом" и учителем, без которого не было бы ни "Космической одиссеи", ни "Звездных войн"... Что мы знаем об этом человеке и его фильмах?

Планета вампиров

(Terrore nello spazio, Италия, 1965, реж. Марио Бава)

Отработав все возможные "ужасные" сюжеты на Земле, в 1965 году Марио Бава обратил свой режиссерский взгляд в космос. Смесь готического ужаса и научной фантастики на 30 лет предвосхитила появление "Чужих" Джеймса Кэмерона.

Безмолвная звезда

(Der Schweigende Stern Германия-Польша, 1959, реж. Курт Метциг)

5 октября 1957 года в связи с запуском первого советского спутника Земли американская газета "Нью-Йорк геральд трибюн" написала: "Наша страна понесла поражение в эпическом соревновании XX века". Вышедшая на экраны два года спустя польско-немецкая "Безмолвная звезда", казалось, забила окончательный гроб в крышку гроба под названием "космическое превосходства стран капитализма".