Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The desert of forbidden art / a film by Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev ; Desert of Forbidden Art Film LLC. ; funding provided by National Endowment for the Arts [and others] ; written, produced and directed by Amanda Pope & Tchavdar Georgiev.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Desert of Forbidden Art LLC, [2010]

Description:

1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

NTSC

video file DVD video

Summary:

"How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or gulags. Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artists' works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from the watchful eyes of the KGB"--Container.

Subjects:

Savit︠s︡kiĭ, I. V. (Igor Vitalʹevich), 1915-1984.

Nukusskiĭ muzeĭ iskusstv Karakalpakstana.

Art and state -- Soviet Union.

Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Soviet Union.

Artists -- Soviet Union -- 20th century.

Art, Russian -- 20th century.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Other Author:

Pope, Amanda C., producer, director, screenwriter.

Georgiev, Tchavdar, screenwriter, director, producer.