This film is an intimate journey into Russian history, culture, society, politics and literature. In Russia, all of these are interconnected, and this film transports viewers to Russia to see for themselves.
72 min.
English and Russian with English subtitles
The New York Russian Documentary Film Festival selected “Pushkin Is Our Everything” for its “Faces of Russia” award, which recognizes the film that best illustrates contemporary Russian society.
Film participants
Galina Sedova
Director, Pushkin Museum-Apartment (Moika, 12)
Ekaterina Asmus
Poet, St. Petersburg
Nikolai Svanidze
Russian State University for the Humanities
Venjamin Filshtinsky
Professor of Acting at St. Petersburg
State Academy for the Theater Arts
Olga Schneider
Teacher, Moscow School #353 (“Pushkin School”)
Natalya Yazykova
Former Director, Moscow School #353 (“Pushkin School”)
Alexander Burganov
Sculptor (Moscow)
Dmitri Makarov
Creative Director at Great Advertising
(St. Petersburg)
Svetlana Strizhneva
Mayakovsky Museum (Moscow)
Valentina Ochirova
St. Petersburg/Buryatiya
Larissa Yudenko
Teacher, Zakamensk Regional Schoool, Buryatiya
Marcus Levitt
Professor University of Southern
California (Los Angeles)
Credits
Written, directed and produced by
Michael Beckelhimer
Executive Producer
Kim Thomas
Associated Producers
Elena Podolskaya, Ludmila
Pachepsky
Olga Schneider
Teacher, Moscow School #353 (“Pushkin School”)
Natalya Yazykova
Former Director, Moscow School #353 (“Pushkin School”)
Alexander Burganov
Sculptor (Moscow)
Dmitri Makarov
Creative Director at Great Advertising
(St. Petersburg)
Editor
Michael Closson
Composer
Vladimir Podgoretsky
The New York Russian Documentary Film Festival selected “Pushkin Is Our Everything” for its “Faces of Russia” award, which recognizes the film that best illustrates contemporary Russian society.
Film participants
Galina Sedova
Director, Pushkin
Museum-Apartment
(Moika, 12)
Ekaterina Asmus
Poet, St. Petersburg
Nikolai Svanidze
Russian State
University for the
Humanities
Venjamin Filshtinsky
Professor of Acting
at St. Petersburg
State Academy for
the Theater Arts
Svetlana Strizhneva
Mayakovsky
Museum (Moscow)
Valentina Ochirova
St. Petersburg/
Buryatiya
Larissa Yudenko
Teacher, Zakamensk
Regional Schoool,
Buryatiya
Marcus Levitt
Professor University
of Southern
California (Los
Angeles)
Olga Schneider
Teacher, Moscow School #353 (“Pushkin School”)
Natalya Yazykova
Former Director, Moscow
School #353
(“Pushkin School”)
Alexander Burganov
Sculptor (Moscow)
Dmitri Makarov
Creative Director at
Great Advertising
(St. Petersburg)
Credits
Written, Directed
And Produced By
Michael Beckelhimer
Executive Producer
Kim Thomas
Associated
Producers
Elena Podolskaya,
Ludmila Pachepsky
Editor
Michael Closson
Composer
Vladimir
Podgoretsky