Chagall — Malevich

Chagall — Malevich
Chagall — Malevich
Directed by	Alexander Mitta
Written by	Alexander Mitta
Produced by	Larisa Shneiderman, Alexander Mitta
Starring	Leonid Bichevin, Anatoliy Beliy, Christina Schneider
Cinematography	Sergey Machilsky
Production; companies	"Marmot-Film", "ShiM-Film"
Release date	3 April 2014;
Running time	119 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Chagall — Malevich (Russian: Шагал — Малевич) is a 2014 Russian biographical drama film directed by Alexander Mitta about the Vitebsk period in the life of the artist Marc Chagall and his relationship with fellow artist Kazimir Malevich. The film was released on April 3, 2014. It is the last film directed by Alexander Mitta.^[1] It also showed at the 2014 Busan International Film Festival.^[2]

Cast edit

Leonid Bichevin - Marc Chagall
Christina Schneider - Bella Rosenfeld, wife of Chagall
Anatoliy Beliy as Kazimir Malevich
Semyon Shkalikov - Naum
Dmitry Astrakhan - Rebbe Aizik, rabbi
Alexey Ovsyannikov - Zheleznyak
Jacob Levda - Leva, student of Chagall
Sergey Migitsko - Israel Vulfovich Vishnyak
Tatyana Likhacheva - Vishnyak's wife
Semyon Mendelssohn - Trotsky
Vasily Ruksha - Amedeo Modigliani

Reception edit

Chagall-Malevich has an approval rating of 20% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 10 reviews, and an average rating of 6/10.^[3] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".^[4]