BOROVSK’S EFFECT / ЭФФЕКТ БОРОВСКА

Описание: Author: Boris Minaev
Directors: Yulia Grebennikova, Polina Zavadskaya
Producers and Distributors: Asya Druyanova, Daria Khrenova
Studio: The Magic Mountain
Year: 2019
Duration: 66 min
Country: Russia
Language: Russian, English subtitles

Vladimir Ovchinnikov is the ‘Russian Banksy’ – a street artist and a political activist. Because of his art, hundreds of tourists have visited Borovsk, an old Russian town. On the town’s walls he paints the portraits of famous Russian writers and historical figures, as well as photographs of Borovsk’s citizens killed during Stalin’s dictatorship. These painted images, however, are regularly destroyed by officials. But the will of the artist is irrepressible, and he recreates them over and over again. The film was produced with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.