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Alexander Gershtein ...
Producer
Thomas Lahusen
Production company
Chemodan Films
Director of photography
Alexander Gershtein
Editor
Thomas Lahusen ...
IDF Events
2009 East Silver

The Photographer

Fotograf, Canada, Russia, 2009, 59 min, DVD, Arts and Culture, Portrait

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The Photographer is Evgeny Kashirin (1949-2007). From the age of 19, Kashirin captured his time and place, the central Russian province of Riazan, through the lens of his black and white camera. Our film tells (t)his story through the words of his students and acquaintances, his photographs, and footage of the photographer's own projected film compilations accompanied by his haunting blank verse. Together they take the form of a triptych: a dying rural life, a train, and the story of a man who traded his wife for a marble statue of Judith.

Director:

Thomas Lahusen, Tracy McDonald, Alexander Gershtein

Executive producer:

Sergei Kapterev

Producer:

Thomas Lahusen

Director of photography:

Alexander Gershtein

Screenplay:

Thomas Lahusen, Tracy McDonald

Editor:

Thomas Lahusen, Tracy McDonald