Gorky Film Studio

Gorky Film Studio (Russian: Киностудия имени Горького) is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Gorky Film Studio
TypeCorporation
IndustryMotion pictures
Founded1915 (1915)
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia
Key people
Yuliana Slashcheva[1] (CEO)

Lika Blank (general producer)

Dmitry Pristanskov (chairman of the board of directors)
ProductsMotion pictures
Television programs
Websitewww.gorkyfilm.ru

History

In 1915, Mikhail Semenovich Trofimov, a merchant from Kostroma, established the Rus' film production unit (Russian: "Киноателье «Русь»") with studio facilities. In 1936, the studio was transferred to Butyrskaya Street in Moscow. The Rus' studio, employing many actors from Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, specialized in film adaptations of Russian classics. In 1924, the Rus' studio was renamed into the International Workers Relief agency (Russian: Международная рабочая помощь (Межрабпом)), abbreviated as Mezhrabpom-Rus' (Russian: Межрабпом-Русь). Four years later, the studio was renamed Mezhrabpomfilm (Russian: Межрабпомфильм), changing its name once again in 1936 to Soyuzdetfilm (Russian: Союздетфильм), and specialized in films for children. During World War II the film studio was evacuated to Dushanbe and merged with Tadjikfilm. Upon returning to Moscow, the studio was given the name of Maxim Gorky (in 1948). Between 1963 and 2004 its full name was Maxim Gorky Central Film Studio for Children and Youth (Russian: Центральная киностудия детских и юношеских фильмов им. М. Горького).

Since 2015, the film studio has included the branches of the Central Studio of Popular Science and Educational Films (Tsentrnauchfilm) (Russian: Центрнаучфильм), Cinema and Photo Research Institute (NIKFI) (Russian: Научно-исследовательский кинофотоинститут (НИКФИ)), Lennauchfilm (Russian: Леннаучфильм). In October 2019, Yuliana Slashcheva, chairman of the board of the SMF Studio (Soyuzmultfilm), was appointed General Director of the Gorky Film Studio.

Since 2020, the film studio has regularly held pitches for documentary filmmakers as part of the Gorky.Doc project, an annual Open call for feature film scriptwriters, film festivals, industrial conferences and exhibitions with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The film studio is the official organizer of the International festival of popular science films “World of knowledge” which is held annually in St. Petersburg. On December 10, 2020, the first annual industrial conference was organized. In 2020, the first annual film music festival – Soundtrack was held with the participation of the Moscow Production Center. In December 2020, an exhibition of costumes from movie fairy tales was opened at the film studio. At the same time, a film with fashion historian Alexander Vasilyev about costumes in cinema "Believe in a Fairy Tale" (Russian: Поверить в сказку) was released. On June 1, 2021, a VOD platform Kinopoisk HD has premiered a new educational series co-produced by Yandex and the Gorky Film Studio “I want to know everything!” (Russian: Хочу всё знать!).

In November 2021, Russian prime-minister Mikhail Mishustin ordered to allocate more than 1,1 billion roubles to modernize old rooms, to built new facilities and to buy new equipment by 2026.[2]

Selected films and TV productions
Poster of first Soviet sound film Road to Life (1931).

References
  1. "Official site of Gorky Film Studio". Archived from the original on 2021-08-03. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  2. "Правительство выделит 1,1 млрд рублей на модернизацию киностудии им. Горького" (in Russian). Ведомости. 2021-10-06.
  3. "Archived copy". www.gorkyfilm.ru. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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