
Directing
Elena Demidova
Born — Died
1964-04-23 — 2024-01-04
Place of birth
Orenburg, USSR (Russia)
Known for
Directing
Credits
36 titles
Elena Vyacheslavovna Demidova (Russian: Елена Вячеславовна Демидова; April 23, 1964, Orenburg — January 4, 2024, Moscow) was a Russian documentary filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer. Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, member of the Guild of Film Directors of Russia and the Guild of Non-fiction Films and Television of Russia. She graduated from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University with a degree in engineering, in 1997 she received a degree in history at Voronezh State University. In 2006, she successfully graduated from the Film School with a degree in "director". Later she became a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, then a member of th…
Known for
NRThis is a story about the Russian Munchausen, who builds a windmill in his yard and raises beehives with bees on the roof, because in nature bees live in hollows of trees. The wife then argues, then agrees, is engaged in children and economy and assures that he lives in paradise. And sometimes she plays the piano - with her eyes closed. The village around is empty - almost all residents have moved to cities or died - our heroes live like on an island. And the children clean the sewers, learn English and German and are growing up before our eyes ...
Cranberry Island
2010
NRMany men in the world in order to support their families have to leave families. Our characters go J the North as shift w3ockers and produce gas. Dimity is ambitious engineer in the middle of his career. Alex is a plumber. He does not pump gas, he pinups feces, but he's old polar wolf. Andrew3, young guy, comes to the North for the first time. Each of our protagonists has his challenges and problems and family story lines. Each of them makes his mean's choice and pay for it. Their stories develop in front of our eyes.
Men's Choice
2014
NRThe series is based on the memories of children, participants and witnesses of various events in Russia in the 20th century. How children who grew up in Russia in different years of the 20th century perceived the world around them, and with it the everyday life of Russian history. Life, the behavior of parents, the behavior of friends and enemies of the family, the external environment, social upheavals, political events, all this is noticed by children, all this adds up to that picture of history that we will not find either in official reports or in historical research.
Russian History Through the Eyes of Children - 2
2007
NRA girl and a boy of eight and nine years old live in a lost village in the steppes. The school is four kilometers off-road. The boy's daddy dreams of building a snowmobile, and while the girl's mom drives them sometimes on a horse. So they quarrel, and reconcile for a long journey - like a little peasant with a woman. The reason is any - multiplication table, for example ...
The Multiplication Table
2007
NRThe film is dedicated to the life and creative journey of Professor Irina Evgenyevna Taimanova, a television and theater director, producer, journalist, writer, and Honored Artist of Russia. Her remarkable imagination, boundless creative energy, and a flair for bringing together other talented people have given rise to many notable projects across various fields of art. The film’s protagonist guides the audience through a chronicle of Leningrad/St. Petersburg’s cultural life.
Taimanova. A Person Through Time
2024
NRNew Russian experimental film, which combines fiction and documentary scenes in one continuous narration. The shooting of the film took place in Buryatia - a South-Eastern part of Russia that is considered the center of Buddhism in Russia. In the fictional story a Moscow actress comes to faraway Buryatia to find the man she once loved. She is terminally ill and Buryatia gives her a second chance, she does not believe in miracles, but miracle happens. The real actress Julia Aug, like her character, is also in Buryatia for the first time. The documentary, filmed during the shooting of the film, shows the real Julia's feelings and experiences while she discovers the unique atmosphere, nature and culture of Buryatia.
A Touch of Wind
2016
Behind the camera
NRThis is a story about the Russian Munchausen, who builds a windmill in his yard and raises beehives with bees on the roof, because in nature bees live in hollows of trees. The wife then argues, then agrees, is engaged in children and economy and assures that he lives in paradise. And sometimes she plays the piano - with her eyes closed. The village around is empty - almost all residents have moved to cities or died - our heroes live like on an island. And the children clean the sewers, learn English and German and are growing up before our eyes ...
Cranberry Island
2010
NRThis is a story about the Russian Munchausen, who builds a windmill in his yard and raises beehives with bees on the roof, because in nature bees live in hollows of trees. The wife then argues, then agrees, is engaged in children and economy and assures that he lives in paradise. And sometimes she plays the piano - with her eyes closed. The village around is empty - almost all residents have moved to cities or died - our heroes live like on an island. And the children clean the sewers, learn English and German and are growing up before our eyes ...
Cranberry Island
2010
NRMany men in the world in order to support their families have to leave families. Our characters go J the North as shift w3ockers and produce gas. Dimity is ambitious engineer in the middle of his career. Alex is a plumber. He does not pump gas, he pinups feces, but he's old polar wolf. Andrew3, young guy, comes to the North for the first time. Each of our protagonists has his challenges and problems and family story lines. Each of them makes his mean's choice and pay for it. Their stories develop in front of our eyes.
Men's Choice
2014
NRMany men in the world in order to support their families have to leave families. Our characters go J the North as shift w3ockers and produce gas. Dimity is ambitious engineer in the middle of his career. Alex is a plumber. He does not pump gas, he pinups feces, but he's old polar wolf. Andrew3, young guy, comes to the North for the first time. Each of our protagonists has his challenges and problems and family story lines. Each of them makes his mean's choice and pay for it. Their stories develop in front of our eyes.
Men's Choice
2014
NRThe series is based on the memories of children, participants and witnesses of various events in Russia in the 20th century. How children who grew up in Russia in different years of the 20th century perceived the world around them, and with it the everyday life of Russian history. Life, the behavior of parents, the behavior of friends and enemies of the family, the external environment, social upheavals, political events, all this is noticed by children, all this adds up to that picture of history that we will not find either in official reports or in historical research.
Russian History Through the Eyes of Children - 2
2007
NRA girl and a boy of eight and nine years old live in a lost village in the steppes. The school is four kilometers off-road. The boy's daddy dreams of building a snowmobile, and while the girl's mom drives them sometimes on a horse. So they quarrel, and reconcile for a long journey - like a little peasant with a woman. The reason is any - multiplication table, for example ...
The Multiplication Table
2007
NRA girl and a boy of eight and nine years old live in a lost village in the steppes. The school is four kilometers off-road. The boy's daddy dreams of building a snowmobile, and while the girl's mom drives them sometimes on a horse. So they quarrel, and reconcile for a long journey - like a little peasant with a woman. The reason is any - multiplication table, for example ...
The Multiplication Table
2007
NRA girl and a boy of eight and nine years old live in a lost village in the steppes. The school is four kilometers off-road. The boy's daddy dreams of building a snowmobile, and while the girl's mom drives them sometimes on a horse. So they quarrel, and reconcile for a long journey - like a little peasant with a woman. The reason is any - multiplication table, for example ...
The Multiplication Table
2007
NRThe film is dedicated to the life and creative journey of Professor Irina Evgenyevna Taimanova, a television and theater director, producer, journalist, writer, and Honored Artist of Russia. Her remarkable imagination, boundless creative energy, and a flair for bringing together other talented people have given rise to many notable projects across various fields of art. The film’s protagonist guides the audience through a chronicle of Leningrad/St. Petersburg’s cultural life.
Taimanova. A Person Through Time
2024
NRNew Russian experimental film, which combines fiction and documentary scenes in one continuous narration. The shooting of the film took place in Buryatia - a South-Eastern part of Russia that is considered the center of Buddhism in Russia. In the fictional story a Moscow actress comes to faraway Buryatia to find the man she once loved. She is terminally ill and Buryatia gives her a second chance, she does not believe in miracles, but miracle happens. The real actress Julia Aug, like her character, is also in Buryatia for the first time. The documentary, filmed during the shooting of the film, shows the real Julia's feelings and experiences while she discovers the unique atmosphere, nature and culture of Buryatia.
A Touch of Wind
2016
NRThis cinematic study tells us a story of one of the most famous lamas in Russia and Buryatia, XII Pandido Khambo Lama Dashi Dorzho Itigelov.
The Mystery of a Buryat Lama
2018
NRThis cinematic study tells us a story of one of the most famous lamas in Russia and Buryatia, XII Pandido Khambo Lama Dashi Dorzho Itigelov.
The Mystery of a Buryat Lama
2018
5.0The Almanac of the Laboratory of Scientific Cinema. 16 directors selected the most interesting scientific developments and research at Skoltech and created 16 short films.
16 Ways to Change the World
2022
NROn the streets of a small village is an ordinary evening. There is a passionate week - people clean the yards and houses before Easter, rest. And the ambulance has its own suffering - like the whole year. A minimum of tools, old cars, bad roads, spring slush ...
Holy Week
2006
NROn the streets of a small village is an ordinary evening. There is a passionate week - people clean the yards and houses before Easter, rest. And the ambulance has its own suffering - like the whole year. A minimum of tools, old cars, bad roads, spring slush ...
Holy Week
2006
NRThe communist poet Nazim Hikmet, after serving 17 years in Turkish prisons, fled to the Soviet Union as the country of victorious communism. Communism turned out to be a hoax, it lost its homeland forever. The Turkish word "hasret" (longing) is one of the few Turkish words that his adopted daughter learned. His heart could not stand the melancholy and hypocrisy of Soviet life, he died early and was buried in Moscow, where he was safely forgotten. But this old story becomes suddenly very relevant during the referendum in Istanbul.
Hasret
2018
NRMany five-story buildings was built in Moscow during the sixties of the last century. Service life of these houses was designed for 50 years. Now these houses are destroyed in order to build new houses in their place. Digger crushes concrete blocks like cardboard. He looks like a dragon with a long neck. After two or three days dragon will grind house where Sasha and Lena live. But they don't have place to go. Relatives have taken Sasha's apartment ownership forcing him to sign the documents when he was drunk. Now Sasha's sister is ready to buy a room to Sasha, but she not allow him take Lena. Sasha does not agree, Sasha loves Lena. And Iron Dragon is coming.
Sasha, Lena and Iron Dragon
2012
NRMany five-story buildings was built in Moscow during the sixties of the last century. Service life of these houses was designed for 50 years. Now these houses are destroyed in order to build new houses in their place. Digger crushes concrete blocks like cardboard. He looks like a dragon with a long neck. After two or three days dragon will grind house where Sasha and Lena live. But they don't have place to go. Relatives have taken Sasha's apartment ownership forcing him to sign the documents when he was drunk. Now Sasha's sister is ready to buy a room to Sasha, but she not allow him take Lena. Sasha does not agree, Sasha loves Lena. And Iron Dragon is coming.
Sasha, Lena and Iron Dragon
2012
NRSummer 2010. The entire central part of Russia is engulfed in fires. The authors of the films of the almanac together with the volunteers go to the epicenter of events. Volunteers, foresters, firefighters – they are not heroes in the usual sense of the word, it was just their life, their trouble, and they tried to cope with it as best they could.
Portmanteau Film Dedicated to the Fires of Summer 2010
2011
NRThe story of a woman who literally changes her life before our eyes. With a prison behind her and a life in a dysfunctional environment, she is trying to become an actress. She plays in the theater, she is filmed by Loznitsa and Serebrennikov, but she has nowhere to live, and there is no money even for cigarettes. The new life is difficult, and the old one pulls back. And the prison is still nearby, because she finds herself at the very center of the Moscow protests.
The Third Life Of Marina Klescheva
2022
NRThe story of a woman who literally changes her life before our eyes. With a prison behind her and a life in a dysfunctional environment, she is trying to become an actress. She plays in the theater, she is filmed by Loznitsa and Serebrennikov, but she has nowhere to live, and there is no money even for cigarettes. The new life is difficult, and the old one pulls back. And the prison is still nearby, because she finds herself at the very center of the Moscow protests.
The Third Life Of Marina Klescheva
2022
NRThe filming history of the first Soviet film to win an Oscar in 1943, the documentary "Moscow strikes back", tells about the defeat of the Nazis near Moscow.
From Parade to the Oscar
2016
NRA film about simple human love in a large family. The head of the family, Grigory Babanin, went through the Chechen war and managed to keep the warmth that he gives to his children, and there are 16 of them, and all are adopted.
Time to Go Home
2008
No synopsis available yet.
Living Water
2006
5.5Summer 2010. Russia. Almost the entire European part of the country is covered with fire. The village where the film’s main character lives has been almost completely burned down. We walk with him along the former village to the ashes of his house to feed his cat and dog. We walk and talk about the fire and many other things...
Lesha
2011
5.5Summer 2010. Russia. Almost the entire European part of the country is covered with fire. The village where the film’s main character lives has been almost completely burned down. We walk with him along the former village to the ashes of his house to feed his cat and dog. We walk and talk about the fire and many other things...
Lesha
2011
The documentary is an investigation into why disputes and passions around the personality of Alexander Kolchak are still boiling, as a generalization – questions of historical truth, rewriting history, new views from a new time.
Alexander Kolchak. The Unfinished Story
2019
NRPeasant summer from early spring to late autumn. Today there are no peasant farms in the Voronezh steppes for a long time, the collective farms are a thing of the past, and the various firms created in their place, the land was bought up by huge holdings. Others today are tractor drivers, those who are lucky with work. Other news on the radios, the Donbass is very close, and in that summer of 2015 there were battles going on there. But summer is still a whole life that still needs to be lived.
Lord's Summer
2019
NRFrom the permafrost of the North to the thirty-degree heat of Adler, a train carries residents of the polar Urengoy to the Black Sea through 4,500 kilometers of Russian expanses. In the cramped space of a reserved carriage, in six days, fellow passengers - either by the will of the highest authority, or by chance of dropped tickets — will become the closest people in this tiny space for some time.
The Ark
2007
The action takes place in the house of cinema veterans. Life has changed in recent years. Our heroes are from a previous time. They are almost like Mohican Indians and their living space is also limited to a small area. But life goes on at the same time…
The Mohicans
2008
No synopsis available yet.
The Golden Wedding
2010
NRLesha is the last man in his village. Other men died or left. The village burned down, the houses of the fire victims were built in another village twenty kilometers away. But Alex does not want to leave. He really wants to find a wife, but instead a woman director comes to him from time to time. He wants love, and she makes a movie. The consequences of terrible fires, volunteers and the life of the village, as well as an attempt to understand the relationship between the author and the hero. The story of how we have the right to enter the lives of other people and how to get out of it.
The Last Man
2016
NRLesha is the last man in his village. Other men died or left. The village burned down, the houses of the fire victims were built in another village twenty kilometers away. But Alex does not want to leave. He really wants to find a wife, but instead a woman director comes to him from time to time. He wants love, and she makes a movie. The consequences of terrible fires, volunteers and the life of the village, as well as an attempt to understand the relationship between the author and the hero. The story of how we have the right to enter the lives of other people and how to get out of it.
The Last Man
2016
NRAnna Grigoryevna, an ordinary Soviet woman, dreamed of a trip to Paris for thirty years. And in 1986, during perestroika, she finally finds herself in the city of her dreams. Her husband and son give her a camera, but because of an excess of emotions, she forgets all the instructions and brings the film, which, when developed, turned out to be a marriage. Recently, the adult son of Anna Grigoryevna found a film. And I decided that this is modern art! He walks around the studios, exhibition curators, they laugh at him, this story is incomprehensible to his mother, his girlfriend is not interested in it. And between these walks, a life passes in which each of these women claims her rights to him.
Paris 1986
2017
NRThe heroine of the film is ill with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Masha can no longer move and speak, only her fingers move a little and make it possible to control a computer mouse. Masha lives in a poor apartment with a small daughter. Alice is a successful musician living in two countries - Russia and America. She comes to Masha as a music therapist. But sometimes she does not really understand how to behave, she is afraid of this meeting ... Women from different worlds – and the contact might not have happened, but something is happening between the heroines very important, which makes them both not so afraid to look into the future…
Alice from Wonderland
2020
No synopsis available yet.
Not by Bread Alone
2019
