An Example of Intonation
| An Example of Intonation | |
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| Russian: Пример интонации | |
| Directed by | Alexander Sokurov |
| Written by | Alexander Sokurov |
| Cinematography | Alexander Burov |
| Edited by | Leda Semyonova |
| Music by | Giuseppe Verdi Pyotr Tchaikovsky Vincenzo Bellini Ludwig van Beethoven |
Production company | TsTI LO SFC |
Release date |
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Running time | 48 min. |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
An Example of Intonation (Russian: Пример интонации, romanized: Primer intonatsii) is an 1991 Russian documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov.[1][2]
Plot[edit]
The second part of a duology about the politician Boris Yeltsin after the “Soviet Elegy” filmed two years earlier.[3]
At the center of what is happening on the screen are the first months of Yeltsin’s presidency and how the life of his family changed after being elected to office.
Critical response[edit]
TV critic Irina Petrovskaya noted in her review:[4]
An Example of Intonation remained an isolated example, but not for imitation, but for the clearest characteristic of the time when presidents were not ashamed of the humanity in themselves and allowed those filming to record this weakness. Or, conversely, force.
Alexandra Tuchinskaya wrote that Sokurov managed to “reveal in his interlocutor the mental pain and insecurity human, all too human”.[5]
Just weeks before he became Russia’s first democratically elected president, Sokurov engaged a deeply fatigued, mumbling Boris Yeltsin in a provocative discussion of his personal beliefs. Set in and around Yeltsin’s family home in an informal atmosphere of tea and blinis, the film asks the urgent question: “Who is this man?” Sokurov inflects his portrait with a sound track that obscures Yeltsin’s voice often to the point of incomprehensibility.
References[edit]
- ^ "Как уходила стихия воли Ельцина по Александру Сокурову". Фонтанка. July 12, 2020.
- ^ ""Советская элегия" и "Пример интонации"". Кировская областная библиотека имени А. И. Герцена. March 16, 2015.
- ^ Майя Туровская. ""Советская элегия": 120 парадных портретов. И один непарадный". Сеанс. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^ Петровская, Ирина (April 25, 2008). "Пример интонации" (in Russian). Известия.
- ^ "Пример интонации (1991)". Остров Сокурова.
- ^ "Soviet Elegy // An Example of Intonation". Harvard Film Archive. March 26, 2002.
External links[edit]
- An Example of Intonation at IMDb
- "Александр Сокуров в "Порядке слов"". Сеанс. Retrieved 23 March 2011.
- Jeremi Szaniawski. "The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov. Figures of Paradox". Columbia University Press. Retrieved February 4, 2014.
