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Film of the Week: Planet Kirsan

date:
23.08.2010

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Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is a not-so-subtle autocratic ruler of the Republic of Kalmykia and President of the World Chess Federation. Dalgan Niudleev, a chess prodigy and a student at the Moscow University views the President as his role model. Magdalena Pieta's Planet Kirsan explores the creeping, chess-obsessed totalitarianism that permeates all aspects of Kalmyk society.

The film attended the Ex Oriente Film 2007 and was pitched at the East European Forum 2007.

PLANET KIRSAN
Poland 2010, 52 min

Director: Magdalena Pieta
Producer: Krzysztof Kopczyński
Executive producer: Agnieszka Janowska
Original idea: Magdalena Pieta
Screenplay: Magdalena Pieta
Director of photography: Michal Popiel-Machnicki
Sound: Agnieszka Janowska

Once upon a time there was a little Girl who most of all loved Chess, and the President who promised to change the life of those who play the game. Planet Kirsan is a story about a failed revolution and unfailing love for the game. There is a place within the borders of Europe where the President most of all loves chess. In this little republic lives a 12 year-old boy who studies at the Moscow University and who mainly loves the President. Planet Kirsan is a film about a child's dreams, and the way it confronts with the world around it: the world which at first seems full of metaphysics and poetry, but which turns into a cold-blooded political calculation when you watch it up close.

date:
23.08.2010

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