Sergei Sobyanin: Moscow to reopen the famous Gorky Film Studio

The Maxim Gorky Central Film Studio for Children and Youth will be transferred from federal to city ownership. Vladimir Putin signed the relevant decree. The decision will facilitate the large-scale modernization of one of the oldest Russian film studios founded in 1915. That is what Sergei Sobyanin wrote in his blog.

The golden collection of the Gorky Film Studio includes hundreds of films that make up the cultural heritage of Russia, and among them: “The Dawns Here Are Quiet”, “Volunteers”, “Seventeen Moments of Spring”, “White Bim the Black Ear”, “And Quiet Flows the Don”, “Officers”, “Carnival”, “Three Poplars in Plyushchikha”, “Jack Frost”, “Could One Imagine?”, “The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors”, “Guest from the Future”, and many others.

“Like other state-owned film producers, the Gorky Film Studio saw the 1990s decline. For a long time, it produced few films. The main building and the studio complex were dilapidated. But, fortunately, the studio managed to survive. In recent years, it is coming to the end of its run of bad luck. A new management team has taken over. 12 feature films and 16 documentary films are being produced,” said the Moscow Mayor.

The Gorky Film Campus youth creative space hosts lectures and master classes for young film fans, future film students and modern cinema, media and digital content specialists. Assisted by the industry curators, talented young people go on film expeditions to Russian cities and foreign countries, where they shoot their own films.

Supported by the Russian Government and the Ministry of Culture, the studio complex is being modernized.

“Based on the experience of the VDNKh and the Northern River Station renovation, we are convinced that the transfer of the Gorky Film Studio to the city ownership will help us implement these plans. In a few years, the city will launch another creative space with everything necessary included to provide a full cycle of film production,” said Sergei Sobyanin.