Kamchatka blues - a song in eastern Russia Kamchatka is often represented through the landscape, namely its volcanoes, the ocean, the fog, the wind and the salt, but behind these images there are also people and their history, which tells how people created their music, looked for interlocutors, recorded songs on tapes and turned ordinary apartments into concert halls. This is exactly what the new documentary series "Kamchatka Blues" is about, which does not try to tell everything about the peninsula, but rather looks at the peninsula through those who lived here, created and changed the ideas of others about what a culture on the edge of the earth could be. The voice and main character of the film was the journalist and writer Igor Maltsev, who lived in Kamchatka for 30 years. His memories take the viewer back to the Soviet years, when songs were heard in courtyards and clubs at home concerts. In conditions of geographical isolation, music here was not just a hobby, but it became a way of communication, protest, friendship and inner freedom. The series shows how music was woven into the culture of the small northern peoples: poetry, dance, painting and literature. This is a story about how art helped to preserve language, memory and identity even when external circumstances did not leave much room for this. The project was directed by Alexandra Frank based on the book by Igor Maltsev. The production was carried out by the film company "KinoMatryoshka" with the support of the Internet Development Institute; The series is available in the online cinema Start. The film also features Yevgeny Margolis, Ksenia Padolova, Maxim Kassap, Vladimir Kornenko, Valery Kravchenko and other representatives of the creative community. A separate and very personal line is dedicated to the musician Alexey Lysikov, who had a significant impact on the way the people of Kamchatka heard and understood music. "Kamchatka Blues" consists of four episodes that last about 30 minutes. The first episode - "Tea on the Beach" - is already available: watch.

Kamchatka blues - a song in eastern Russia Kamchatka is often represented through the landscape, namely its volcanoes, the ocean, the fog, the wind and the salt, but behind these images there are also people and their history, which tells how people created their music, looked for interlocutors, recorded songs on tapes and turned ordinary apartments into concert halls. This is exactly what the new documentary series "Kamchatka Blues" is about, which does not try to tell everything about the peninsula, but rather looks at the peninsula through those who lived here, created and changed the ideas of others about what a culture on the edge of the earth could be. The voice and main character of the film was the journalist and writer Igor Maltsev, who lived in Kamchatka for 30 years. His memories take the viewer back to the Soviet years, when songs were heard in courtyards and clubs at home concerts. In conditions of geographical isolation, music here was not just a hobby, but it became a way of communication, protest, friendship and inner freedom. The series shows how music was woven into the culture of the small northern peoples: poetry, dance, painting and literature. This is a story about how art helped to preserve language, memory and identity even when external circumstances did not leave much room for this. The project was directed by Alexandra Frank based on the book by Igor Maltsev. The production was carried out by the film company "KinoMatryoshka" with the support of the Internet Development Institute; The series is available in the online cinema Start. The film also features Yevgeny Margolis, Ksenia Padolova, Maxim Kassap, Vladimir Kornenko, Valery Kravchenko and other representatives of the creative community. A separate and very personal line is dedicated to the musician Alexey Lysikov, who had a significant impact on the way the people of Kamchatka heard and understood music. "Kamchatka Blues" consists of four episodes that last about 30 minutes. The first episode - "Tea on the Beach" - is already available: watch.