"The Island" (PG13) screening with Director Pavel Lungin

During World War II, the sailor Anatoly and his captain, Tikhon, are captured by the Germans when they board their barge and tugboat, which is carrying a shipment of coal. The German officer leading the raid offers Anatoly – who is terrified of dying – the choice to be shot or to shoot Tikhon and stay alive, which Anatoly takes; he shoots, and Tikhon falls overboard. The Germans blow up the ship but Anatoly is found by Russian Orthodox monks on the shore the next morning. He survives and becomes a stoker at the monastery but is perpetually overcome with guilt.

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Info: Born on July 12, 1949, in Moscow, he was the son of Semyon Lvovich Lungin (1920–1996) and Lilianna Zinovyevna Lungina (1920–1998). His father was a playwright, screenwriter, and an Honored Worker of Arts of the RSFSR. His mother was a philologist, best known for her Russian translations of the stories by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, including “Karlsson-on-the-Roof” and “Pippi Longstocking".
In 1971, Pavel Lungin graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1980, he completed the directing program at the Higher Courses for Screenwriters and Directors (studying under Georgy Daneliya and Mikhail Lvovsky). In the early 1970s, he worked as a mathematician-programmer at the Institute for Sociological Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and later served as a staff member in the science section of the “Literaturnaya Gazeta” newspaper.
In the mid-1970s, Pavel Lungin began his career in cinema.

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