Lungin called self-therapy attempts to rethink the era of the 90s
Lungin said that people “in them [in the 90s] fell into cold water” and talk about that time, apparently, “cures” people who did not talk about their complexes and experiences
Attempts to rethink the era of the 90s is “self-therapy”, said director Pavel Lungin on the air of Radio RBC.
Speaking about the film “Four Lives of Peter Mamonov”, which is released today, Lungin was asked: “Don’t you think that we are all now very much reflecting on the 90s?” Will it not be excessive?”.
“No, it’s never superfluous, because we’ve fallen into them like cold water, like a hot tub, rather. They were surprised. Now it's time to sort out those bubbles. And I think that’s the time to talk about that. Well, apparently, it cures us, because we kept silent about so many of our complexes and experiences, we did not tell ourselves. You know? It's kind of self-therapy, the director replied.
According to him, the film “Four Lives of Peter Mamonov” is a film “glued together” from Mamonov’s songs, his statements and the words of his friends.
The biographical documentary “Four Lives of Peter Mamonov”, filmed by Pavel Lungin, was released on October 22. The story of the search for the meaning of life and the rebirth of the musician and actor operates with archival videos, family photos and fragments from interviews of early years. Lungin also refers to memories – his own and others’: in the picture, Yevgeny Margulis, Viktor Sukhorukov, Olga Mamonova, Victoria Isakova, Sergey Shnurov and others say.
Petr Mamonov was born on April 14, 1951 in Moscow. He grew up in the Great Caret Lane in an intelligent creative family. From his youth he was an eccentric leader of the Moscow informals. He changed dozens of professions, from a loader and lifter to an English translator.
In the early 1980s he formed the underground rock band The Sound of Moo. The band toured Europe and the United States, and their album was produced by the legendary Brian Eno. In 1988, Mamonov played the cult role of a surgeon in the film Rashid Nugmanov “The Needle” with Viktor Tsoi. In 1990, he starred in Pavel Lungin’s debut film Taxi Blues, which later won the Best Director prize at the Cannes Film Festival and glorified the actor and director in Europe.
In the 1990s he staged solo performances at the Stanislavsky Moscow Drama Theatre. In the mid-1990s, he experienced a deep internal crisis, dissolved the group and went to live in the remote village of Efanovo. There he turned to Orthodoxy and radically changed his way of life.
In 2006, he returned to the cinema to play in the phantasmogoric film Dust (2005), and then to play the role of Elder Anatoly in the drama The Island by Pavel Lungin. This work brought him the awards “Nika” and “Golden Eagle”, as well as national recognition as a deep dramatic actor. Later, in 2009, the historical drama “The Tsar” was released, where Mamonov embodied the image of Ivan the Terrible on the screen.
Petr Mamonov died in 2021 from the effects of coronavirus infection. He was 70 years old.
