Il Naso o la cospirazione degli anticonformisti (2021)

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The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks is a 2020 Russian animated film. The film is created by the animation studio School-Studio "Shar". People's Artist of Russia animator, Andrei Khrzhanovsky directed the film. The film is based on the Russian classic, The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. The script writers Yuri Arabov and Andrei Khrzhanovsky adapted the 19th-century prose of Gogol as well as the verses of the opera of the same name by Dmitri Shostakovich into an animated film featuring a mixture of drawings, cut-outs, live-action, and documentary style filming.

Production

The film is inspired by the short story The Nose by Nikolai Gogol and the opera of the same name by Dmitri Shostakovich. Their works presented avant-garde ideas that intrigued the public. However, the works especially the opera received meager publicity during the Stalinist government of the 1920s. By 1960s, the Soviet Union during the Krushchev Thaw, decided to adapt a cinematic rendition of the short story.

A combination of censorship and correspondence with prominent patrons of the arts of the Soviet Union from Meyerhold's family to Shostakovich gave impetus for director Andrei Khrzhanovsky to create a cinematic film about liberal arts and its relationship to society. Even despite the Thaw time period, Khrzhanovsky's 1968 short film Glass Harmonica was censored by the government. The initial idea for the film only started through coincidence.

The first time Khrzhanovsky heard of the full version of the opera The Nose was at a 1974 play rendered by the composer Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Thereafter the director developed the concept of a film that at first became a tribute to Vsevolod Meyerhold through the script The Transformation Machine that became more formalized after the release of the 2008 film Room and a Half.

The script describes the innovators and mavericks in arts and science from the twentieth and twenty-first century who came at the crossroads of authoritarian societies. Condensed into three parts with an adaptation that included Antiformalist Rayok, the script references an unprecedented meeting of such people as Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Bulgakov, Gogol and Stalin.

The inspiration for converging the time periods of the two centuries that the film presented, came when the director was on a flight. Many bright screens of the airplane played different movies of different eras and countries despite the cabin room being closed off from light. The director was inspired by this event to create a multi-screen collage approach to edit and combine different fragments and stories with stylistic switching.

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