HURRICANE KALATOZOV

Synopsis:
By offering to USSR, in 1958, the Golden Palm of the Cannes Film Festival with his masterpiece : “ Cranes are flying ”, Mikhaïl Kalatozov, director of georgian origin, opened an incredible breach in the greyness of the soviet film production and upset millions of spectators and tens of future filmakers.
His brillant director of photography, Sergueï Ouroussevski, remained in him faithfull for other adventures in particular his Soy Cuba , epic movies-poem, saved from the overnight by Martin Scorsese and Francis Coppola.
Filmed in Moscow,Tbilissi, Havana,Honfleur and Paris this film redraws the complex route of Mikhaïl Kalatozov, very implied in the political, cultural and diplomatic story of the ex-USSR.

His son, Giorgi-Tito, then his little son, an other Mikhaïl, pursued his researches in their own works, each with talent.
What was able to bring the dinasty of Kalatozichvili to the Russian, Georgian and world cinema.
Mikhaïl Kalatozichvili ( died in October 2009 ) comes back to the family epic and shows ressources and current wanderings of the Russian cinema. In his listening and compared to the images saved by three generations, reports loosens in particular those of Claudia CARDINALE, Valérie POZNER, Françoise NAVAILH, Enrique PINEDA BARNET, Miguel MENDOZA,Raoul RODRIGUEZ, Salvador WOOD, Kirill RAZLOGOV, Sergueï KAPTEREV.

Broadcast:
Cine Cinema
Les Films du Horla

Festivals:
Russian Film Festival Honfleur 2010
Year of Russia in France 2010