The Arbiter (1992 film)
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| The Arbiter | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ivan Okhlobystin |
| Produced by | Elena Imamova Aleksandr Vasilkov |
| Written by | Ivan Okhlobystin |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Mikhail Mukasey |
Production company | Mosfilm, Krug, Income Film |
Release date | 1922 |
Running time | 85 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russia |
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"The Arbiter" (Russian: Арбитр) is a 1992 Russian psychological detective film directed by Ivan Okhlobystin where the young Bondarchuk also appears as a gay photographer. According to the author, the Arbiter film is «a rumba on the wing of an airplane in flight».[1] The Arbiter is Okhlobystin's first and last directorial work.[2]
Plot[edit]
A young investigator (Ivan Okhlobystin) and his experienced colleague-mentor (Rolan Bykov) track down a serial murderer named "Arbiter" (Alexander Solovyov) who kills criminals for some reason.[2] During the investigation it turns out that the killer is not a professional criminal, but a man who once became a victim himself.[3]
Cast[edit]
- Ivan Okhlobystin as Andrei, a Militia lieutenant
- Rolan Bykov as Vladimir Ivanovich, Major of Militia and Andrei's mentor
- Fyodor Bondarchuk as Roma, a gay-photographer
- Alexander Solovyov as a murderer named "Arbiter"
- Rimma Markova as Andrei's mother
- Alyona Khmelnitskaya as Anna, Andrei's wife
- Kseniya Kachalina as the Arbitrator's friend
- Kirill Kozakov as investigator named «Monk»
- Alexander Glovyak as investigator named "Readhead"
- Stanislav Kostetsky as prosecutor
- Yevgeny Yevstigneyev as voice-over
Production[edit]
At the time the film was made, Ivan Okhlabystin had just graduated from Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, (VGIK). He was an excellent student, so many people had high hopes for him. However, in those years, cinemas in Russia were converted into furniture stores and it was almost impossible to release a film. Despite the difficulties Okhlabystin decided to experiment with the hope that in the future, when things get better, he already had experience. He was also interested in trying to do something in the noir style.[2] The film often features shots and episodes that quote or resemble the films of Elan Parker, Hitchcock, Friedkin, Lynch, and Scorsese.[4]
Jean-Luc Godard had a great influence on the young director, while and Mikhail Mukasey and Rolan Bykov helped and supported him. While still a student, Okhlobystin agreed with Mukasey on a further collaboration and Bykov liked the style and script of the future movie. Thus a company was assembled, with which Okhlabystin quite quickly managed to shoot material. In the process of editing Andrei realized that directing is not his strong point and he hadn't found the right theme yet. That's how he started to write scripts.[2]
The Arbiter screenplay was written by Okhlabystin for himself. This is evident both in the character, which the director endowed with his character traits, weaknesses, strengths, as well as in the surrounding world - described as it is understood by the creator.
The project was financed by Herman Sterligov's Young Millionaires Club because the young Okhlobystin did not have enough money, especially since such famous actors as Bykov, Bondarchuk and Evstigneev took part in shooting the films.
Awards and Nominations[edit]
- Prize for the Best Director at the Second Premiere Film Festival (Moscow) in 1992.
- "Nomination. Cinema. XXI Century" at the Yalta Film Forum in 1994.
Criticism[edit]
- The reviewer of "Iskusstvo Kino" magazine Natalia Rtischeva believes that the role of the angel boy in Nikita Tyagunov's film "Leg" made Okhlobystin "a cult personality, a figure of a new young generation... "The Arbiter" added cult status, and from that moment Ivan's favorite pastime was to mess with journalists' minds".[1]
- One more reviewer of "Iskusstvo Kino" magazine Aleksandrovsky I. commented on the film's script as follows: "The narrative confrontation between the investigators and the criminal, the ironic assessment of the militia poetics is only a pretext for the director to "publicly utter schizophrenic pseudo-philosophical maxims and themes of mystical mania of the main villain."[5]
- Stolitsa magazine (Moscow): "He (Okhlobystin) has just finished practicing yoga and is now, according to this teaching, in a 'period of perplexity. "The Arbiter is a manifesto of this perplexity, a model of a new aesthetic. (He) can be considered a selection from Vanya, and he himself is a phenomenon of the Russian avant-garde at the beginning of the end of the century."[6]
- Film Studies Notes journal (organ of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Film Art, Goskino USSR): "Ivan Okhlobystin's comic book film The Arbiter breathes with vivid energy, dialoguing with domestic film culture and deliberately aloof underlining the playful nature of cinema as art".[7]
Film Crew[edit]
- Directed by: Ivan Okhlobystin
- Script writer: Ivan Okhlobystin
- Cinematography: Mikhail Mukasey
- Artist: Alexander Shchurikhin, Ilya Amursky
- Composer: Artemiy Artemiev
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Ivan Okhlobystin: "Еhank God, I am happy". "Iskusstvo kino" magazine.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Top 100 Russian films 1992-2013". Afisha.ru.
- ↑ "The Arbiter(1992)". Kinopoisk.ru.
- ↑ "The Arbiter (1992)". kino-teatr.ru.
- ↑ "Dots the i's". "Iskusstvo kino" magazine.
- ↑ Ivan is a wave breaker. His name is not yet known to many people, but soon it will be known to all. "Stolitsa" magazine. 1992. ISSN 0868-698X. Search this book on
- ↑ Film Studies Notes. All-Union Research Institute of Cinematography of the USSR Goskino. 1992. ISSN 0235-8212. Search this book on
External Links[edit]
- The "Arbiter" at the "Encyclopedia of National Cinema" website
- Okhlobystin is quite unconventional at rusact.com
- "The Arbiter" at Internet Movie Database website
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