ARKHANGELSK, May 27. /TASS/. Future screenwriters and directors, studying at the St. Petersburg Institute of Film and Television, collected material for films about famous people of the Arkhangelsk region. They visited locations, associated with the region's prominent personalities, in Arkhangelsk, Solvychegodsk, Kargopol, Krasnoborsk and in the Sura village, the project's curator, associate professor of Philosophy and Sociology at the Northern Arctic Federal University (NArFU)Natalya Kukarenko told TASS.
"We had seven tracks: three routes in Arkhangelsk and four routes in the Arkhangelsk Region. Krasnoborsk is associated with artist Alexander Borisov, Kargopol - with Alexander Baranov, Solvychegodsk - with the Stroganovs, and Sura is associated with John of Kronstadt. The institute's representatives filmed episodes and actively communicated with experts. In Krasnoborsk, they even stayed in Borisov's house, had meetings with artists, and walked where Borisov used to walk. Everyone absorbed the place's authenticity, they eyed the locations like film directors do," she said.
Under the project, students will create scripted biopic applications about the region's famous people, selected in line with results of a local sociological survey and recommendations from the region's Ministry of Culture. They are Saint John of Kronstadt, artist Alexander Borisov, merchants Stroganov, Alexander Baranov - the first governor of Russian settlements in America, Ksenia Gemp - a scientist and algologist, Stepan Pisakhov - a writer and artist, and Antonina Kolotilova - the founder of the State Academic Northern Russian Folk Choir.
