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The documentary film «Lighthouse Keepers» by Alexey Pishchulin is a profound exploration of the lives and work of lighthouse service employees. The film tells the story of people who ensure safe navigation while being at the forefront of the hydrographic coastal structure.

At the center of the narrative are dedicated individuals who serve under challenging conditions, making do with modest living facilities. Despite technological advancements, their primary mission remains unchanged throughout centuries - to ensure maritime safety and serve as beacons of hope for everyone at sea.

The film gains special value thanks to the participation of RSUH students, who not only assist in the production but also maintain a project diary, gaining invaluable practical experience in documentary filmmaking.

The film shows how centuries-old traditions of service, requiring exceptional dedication to the cause and the ability to overcome life's hardships, are preserved in the modern world.

This film is a touching story about life in the USSR in the 70s and 80s. About first love and internal conflicts. About conflicts between teenagers, about conflicts between adults who were also teenagers once.

The film was released in 1979, but it is still relevant today, because we are the children with whom the first frames of the film begin.

From the first minutes - already in the scene with the acorns - the principle of "faster, higher, stronger" is visible. There are no fights, but there is vivid verbal aggression, and despair, and indifference, and devaluation of children, and bullying by children of children, and bullying by adults - everything is visible and everything explains a lot.

Among the powerful, non-standard and unexpected for its time scenes related to medicine and neurobiology, the episode of feeding the baby, based on the principle of mirror neurons, stands out.

It is interesting that these neurons were discovered only in the early 1990s by scientists from the University of Parma in Italy. And the Soviet film of 1979 was more than a decade ahead of this world scientific discovery! Another notable moment is the desynchronization of hearing and voice, which, according to the script, will also be successfully corrected.

The film was shot with great attention to detail: school corridors, courtyards, waiting under windows...

And also, it has many phrases that have become catchphrases, from "Why are you crying? Let's go collect acorns!" to "You can't think that the Mona Lisa was painted just to wipe someone's nose."

The documentary film trilogy "Georgy Zhzhenov. Russian Cross" is dedicated to the biography of the People's Artist of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhzhenov. The true, bitter and terrible story of an entire era of Humanity.

In the first two parts, the actor, one of the few surviving prisoners of the Soviet era, talks about himself and his life in the prisons and zones in which he had to sit. The geography of the sorrowful path is vast: Leningrad (prison "Kresty"), Vladivostok, Magadan - from his hometown to the Far East, where the first years of hard labor of Georgy Stepanovich took place.

In the third film, viewers will see Zhzhenov's meetings with the classic of Russian literature Viktor Astafyev (the filming took place shortly before the writer's death), as well as a dialogue with General Alexander Lebed about the eternal "damned" questions and the fate of Russia.