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A Cry in the Silence
Under development
Based on Francis Spaight by Jack London
A fishing schooner rented by “New Russians” went poaching, but a series of mysterious events and acts of sabotage thwarts the hunters’ plans. And here they are, together with the crew, all 12 of them, at the bargaining table, and the Captain suggests the only possible way out: casting lots to determine who’s going to be eaten to save everyone else from the imminent death. But the nominal jury find it hard to make a decision, since the life of every one of them is at stake.
Production: Ukraine, 2012
Director: Igor Parfenov
Genre: social drama
Cast: Vladimir Maliar, Armen Dzhigarkhanian, Stepan Pasichnik, Ellen Sliusarchi, Sergei Berezhko, Aleksandr Sokolovskiy, Valeria Savluk, Anna Guliaieva, Vitaliy Burleiev.
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A FAREWELL TO BULLFIGHT
after Jack London’s
The Madness of John Harned
The film is based on The Madness of John Harned, a novel by Jack London, and contains Ernest Hemingway's little-known statements.
The arena guards its secrets violently. But one day it opens its doors to a Russian judo sportsman who by chance gets into the thick of things in Pamplona during a fiesta. He refuses to accept the horrors of bullfighting and is thrown to the greatest matador of all ages, the crowd. But killing him turns out to be not that easy a task. More people die on that day than have been killed by bulls in all Spanish arenas in the last fifty years. The arena drinks away the blood once again. Ernest Hemingway's suicide and his last words become the epilogue to the film.
Production: Ukraine-Spain, 2010
Director: Igor Parfenov
Genre: drama
Cast: Boris Khimichev, Vladimir Antonov, Vladimir Maliar, Stepan Pasichnik, Aleksandr Tartyshnikov, Ellen Slusarchi, Igor Parfenov, Marina Yagodkina, Georgiy Khostikoev, Vlad Kulev, Olesya Barhatova
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THE LAST DUEL
July 2, 1961. July 2, 1961. Ernest Hemingway committed suicide a few days after having been discharged from a mental hospital. The suicide letter was destroyed. There were no witnesses.
What had been going on in his head before the prominent writer did away with himself?…
Production: Ukraine, 2010
Director: Igor Parfenov
Genre: drama
Cast: Vladimir Antonov, Aleksandr Derbas, Alina Skachkova, Aleksandr Kristalinskiy, Erick.
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Documentary film "ARENA’S POISON"
The documentary centers on the struggle of the world’s animal protection organizations against bullfighting in Pamplona.
Corrida takes thousands of bulls’ lives every year. More than 20 organizations, among them PETA and Anima Naturalis confront the cruelty of corrida and make great efforts to ban it. Every year thousands of people take part in protest actions in Pamplona right before the bulls’ rounds appealing to the government to stop the bloody tradition and encouraging more and more people to boycott bullfighting and start looking for less aggressive kinds of entertainment.
Production: Ukraine, 2010
Director: Igor Parfenov
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CONFESSION OF THE DEVIL
The story takes place in a special department of a mental hospital. That’s where an allegedly insane and dangerous leader of an Earth Liberation Front organization is kept waiting for the verdict. Not only did he murder 6 hostages, but he also challenged the existing system. His organization is considered terrorist, his friends are kept imprisoned. He refuses to talk, is being constantly drugged and keeps having nightmare flashbacks of the events preceding the arrest.
The only person who finds a way to approach him and get him talking is a young doctor. Apart from being terrifying, the long-awaited confession of the “devil” turns everything upside down. What he is being judged for is striving against a war constantly taking place all over the world, the war against the nature started by people, the war that an average person doesn’t even notice.
Production: Ukraine, 2009
Director: Igor Parfenov
Genre: philosophical drama
Cast: Armen Dzhigarhanyan, Vladimir Koshevoy, Ellen Slusarchi, Sergey Dzhigurda, Vladimir Maliar, Sergey Glushko, Stepan Pasichnik, Eduard Bezrodniy, Sergei Berezhko, Alexandr Tartyshnikov, Irina Rozhenko, Alexey Rubinskiy.
Prize "for The Best Director" and diploma for the best artistic work at the I-th St. Petersburg International Film Festival "HOPE", 2011 ã.
  
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THE PLACE WHERE HORSES CRY
Everybody knows the story about Romeo and Juliet
But who knows the tragic story about an old horse and a young boy?…
Production: Ukraine, 2007
Director: Igor Parfenov
Genre: drama
Cast: Viacheslav Zubkov, Aleksandr Kovshun, Vladimir Ugolnikov, Oksana Stetsenko.
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CRUCIFIED
A shocking project of XXI century
Forbidden Tolstoy. Unknown Jesus.
For several thousand years different religions have been separating peoples and nations and setting them against each other. A passionate philosopher creates a novel where he gives life to a number of disgraced and forbidden writers and rebels who struggled against religious prejudices and tried to throw light upon the unknown truth, declaring their philosophical ideas.
In the film the unreal becomes real, and the cellars of inquisition see the heretic Leo Tolstoy, an unknown Jesus and the Rusputin come to life. This shift of ages involves the audience into a whirlpool of adventures, love and struggle...
Production: Ukraine, 2008
Director: Igor Parfenov
Genre: phantasmagoria - drama
Cast: Vasiliy Vysoven, Armen Dzhigarhanyan, Ellen Slusarchi, Nikita Dzhigurda, Mikhail Shilman, Alexey Rubinskiy, Inna Suzova, Valeriy Brylev, Aleksandr Tartyshnikov, Vladimir Antonov, Sergei Korotkov
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WHEN GODS SLEEP
A drama unfolded on a racecourse makes us look at our life from a different angle. Not only does a horse’s tragic fate change the lives of the main characters, it also erases the borders between the good and the bad, challenging the existing value system. Razhev’s (Armen Dzhigarhanyan) 2 million dollar stake turns into a death sentence for the horse which is supposed to be slaughtered in case of victory – a caprice of the opponent. Trying to save the horse, its coach Ruslan (Nikita Dzhigurda) dies, his fiancée Lena (Ellen Slusarchi) commits suicide. The horse Holstomere also dies, and the fate of Ruzhev will be decided by casting lots.
Production: Ukraine, 2006
Director: Igor Parfenov
Genre: drama
Cast: Armen Dzhigarhanyan, Leonid Tarabarinov, Stepan Pasichnik, Nikita Dzhigurda, Ellen Slusarchi, Aleksei Rubinskiy, Olga Malushenkova, Alexandr Tartyshnikov.
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BULL'S SOUL
Documentary film
The film is about the Spanish corrida, in particular about the annual bullfighting show in Pamplona and about the demonstrations of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). The organization has been fighting against the barbaric tradition of bullfighting for 7 years now, and it has come up with an alternative solution, races of thousands of half-naked people from over 30 countries who run down the streets of Pamplona the day before the bullfighting festival…
Production: Ukraine, 2007
Director: Igor Parfenov
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INSANITY. CHALLENGE AND FIGHT
We leave in a cruel world. At all times people who challenge barbarism, ignorance and prejudices have been considered social outcasts. The main character of the film, Arthur was no exception. A professional sportsman and philosopher, he thought he could wake people up and change the world. The expression “Animal Liberation is Human Liberation” not only became his motto, it turned into his mission in life. What he didn’t know was what kind of butchery he would be dragged into. His fight against the lawlessness of bureaucracy and the police proved to be way harder than his fiercest fights. Put to a special department of a mental hospital, declared insane, having lost his beloved wife and pets, Arthur doesn’t give up, and the things that couldn't kill him made him even stronger.
Production: Ukraine, 2005
Director: Igor Parfenov
Genre: drama
Cast: Leonid Tarabarinov, Armen Dzhigarhanyan, Nikita Dzhigurda, Anatoliy Novikov, Ellen Slusarchi, Alexandr Tartyshnikov, Viacheslav Gindin, Igor Arnautov, Aleksandr Derbas, Oksana Stetsenko, Nikolai Krivolapov.
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