Denis Klebleev

Directing

Denis Klebleev

Known for

Directing

Credits

10 titles

Denis Klebleev (1981) is a filmmaker and cinematographer from Moscow. In 2012 he graduated from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film. His diploma film 31st Haul (2012) won the Best Feature Film prize at Artdocfest (Moscow) and was selected for several film festivals (including Hot Docs and Cinema du Reel). His second documentary Strange Particles (2015) premiered at Cinema Du Reel (Paris), where it received two prizes. It was later screened at various well-known international festivals (Hot Docs, Dok-Leizpig, Locarno, Viennale, etc.). In 2015 he was a member of the jury for the short film competition at the Locarno Film Festival. The world premiere of his new documentary King Lear…

Known for

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Annual Charitable Christmas Evening “Action!”

Beautiful

2018

Winter, Go Away! poster
2.3

Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run. People, faces, conversations, protests, failures and triumphs come together to chronicle the campaign.

Winter, Go Away!

2012

Alisa: Excitement poster
9.0

The plot revolves around the rehearsal of the play “Excitement” in which Freindlikh is to play a famous American writer from New York. The actress and director have heated debates about the eccentric character. They discuss the process of creation, its mysterious mechanisms, the birth of a work of art in general. They also talk about the world around Alisa outside the theatre – her family, home, friends, interests and her beloved St. Petersburg. The film is meant to commemorate the great Russian actress’s 85th anniversary.

Alisa: Excitement

2020

King Lear poster
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An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.

King Lear

2017

31st Haul poster
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Surrounded by swamps, bugs and impassable mountain ranges, the tiny outpost town of Tigil in north-easternmost Russia is as rugged as the people who live there. Filmmaker Denis Klebleev delivers a keenly observed glimpse into their coarse—and rather scandalous—world of hard, simple living. Struggling along an unforgiving dirt path, drivers Yura and Vitalik haul supplies to waiting villagers in an aging tank made of spare parts. At the other end waits Yura’s wife Sveta, a brash, foul-mouthed woman who rules the roost and their delivery business. Their hard labour whets voracious appetites for cursing, drink, rampant sexism and literal tons of hauled food. Beautifully composed shots reveal a rough romanticism for a way of life so foreign to most, and so passionately lived by the few who take it on. 31st Haul is an original and rarely seen study of human relationships.

31st Haul

2013

Concentrate On Breathing poster
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How to become another person in 30 days? Find a way to try 30-year-old Albina, who is in search of a good well-paid job. To make a difficult path to updating Albina, not only home-based online learning helps, but also the Challenge diary, which daily challenges the girl.

Concentrate On Breathing

2019

Behind the camera

No artwork available
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Annual Charitable Christmas Evening “Action!”

Beautiful

2018

Winter, Go Away! poster
2.3

Ten director graduates from Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Film and Documentary Theatre lived with a camera for two months in order to chronicle the last “Russian winter” and its popular uprising against Vladimir Putin’s presidential run. People, faces, conversations, protests, failures and triumphs come together to chronicle the campaign.

Winter, Go Away!

2012

Alisa: Excitement poster
9.0

The plot revolves around the rehearsal of the play “Excitement” in which Freindlikh is to play a famous American writer from New York. The actress and director have heated debates about the eccentric character. They discuss the process of creation, its mysterious mechanisms, the birth of a work of art in general. They also talk about the world around Alisa outside the theatre – her family, home, friends, interests and her beloved St. Petersburg. The film is meant to commemorate the great Russian actress’s 85th anniversary.

Alisa: Excitement

2020

Alisa: Excitement poster
9.0

The plot revolves around the rehearsal of the play “Excitement” in which Freindlikh is to play a famous American writer from New York. The actress and director have heated debates about the eccentric character. They discuss the process of creation, its mysterious mechanisms, the birth of a work of art in general. They also talk about the world around Alisa outside the theatre – her family, home, friends, interests and her beloved St. Petersburg. The film is meant to commemorate the great Russian actress’s 85th anniversary.

Alisa: Excitement

2020

King Lear poster
NR

An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.

King Lear

2017

King Lear poster
NR

An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.

King Lear

2017

King Lear poster
NR

An old and wealthy actor, whose life's obsession is to play King Lear, suffers from a family tragedy of his own that turns him into a real-life Shakespearean character.

King Lear

2017

31st Haul poster
NR

Surrounded by swamps, bugs and impassable mountain ranges, the tiny outpost town of Tigil in north-easternmost Russia is as rugged as the people who live there. Filmmaker Denis Klebleev delivers a keenly observed glimpse into their coarse—and rather scandalous—world of hard, simple living. Struggling along an unforgiving dirt path, drivers Yura and Vitalik haul supplies to waiting villagers in an aging tank made of spare parts. At the other end waits Yura’s wife Sveta, a brash, foul-mouthed woman who rules the roost and their delivery business. Their hard labour whets voracious appetites for cursing, drink, rampant sexism and literal tons of hauled food. Beautifully composed shots reveal a rough romanticism for a way of life so foreign to most, and so passionately lived by the few who take it on. 31st Haul is an original and rarely seen study of human relationships.

31st Haul

2013

Concentrate On Breathing poster
NR

How to become another person in 30 days? Find a way to try 30-year-old Albina, who is in search of a good well-paid job. To make a difficult path to updating Albina, not only home-based online learning helps, but also the Challenge diary, which daily challenges the girl.

Concentrate On Breathing

2019

Strange Particles poster
7.0

A quantum physicist teaches students at the university summer camp.

Strange Particles

2015