Cannes favorite director Nikolai Khomeriki

Nikolai Khomeriki, born in Belokamennaya in 1975, initially for a long time could not decide on the choice of profession. At the insistence of his parents, the future director graduated from an economic college, became an accountant in a branch of Coca-Cola. Having proved himself properly, he went to Amsterdam to continue his education, and to obtain an MBA. In addition, the young man created a joint venture to supply household chemicals to the capital. Business was developing successfully, but fate was adamant.

The first steps in the film industry

While studying in one of the Moscow economic universities Nikolai Khomeriki became a regular at the Museum of Cinema, he gradually began to study this sub-type of art. While in Amsterdam, he enrolled in the local video library, continued self-education, reviewing the classics of cinema. Surprisingly, Khomeriki discovered that in Russia there is a special understanding of the classics of cinema, according to which Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, Bergman occupy Olympus of motion picture art, and not less talented directors are not so highly quoted. The more the film director was revising the future director, the more he began to be interested in lesser-known authors. Among the paintings that influenced the formation of Khomeriki's creative thought, there are A. Tarkovsky's "Stalker", pictures of the directors of the French "new wave", which amaze Nicola with their lightness of drama, and certain films of German filmmakers. According to the director, he admires the work of Rainer Fassbinder, whom nobody in Russia puts on one level with the world-famous classics, as he managed to shoot two films a year. For the Soviet / Russian school - it is unconvincing and not monumental.

The beginning of the creative path

Upon his return to Moscow, Nikolai Khomeriki submits documents for admission to higher courses of filmmakers and screenwriters. By this time he had not shot a single frame and was a complete layman in the way the movies are made. His mentor was V. Khotinenko, although in the process of studying a greater influence was rendered by A. Herman. The debut work of Khomeriki was the highly appreciated three-minute sketch "Drop", highly appreciated by the film festival in Sopot. After the triumphant application for himself in the world of cinema, Nikolai Khomeriki was awarded the Grand MFA of France for postgraduate studies at one of the national leading film schools La Femis. After completing his education, the French film director Philippe Garrel suggested that Nicholas become his assistant during the filming of the film "Regular Lovers."

A great movie

Directed by Nikolai Khomeriki before creating the existential parable "977", he shot some pretty impressive shorts. The film "Nine Seven Seven" was rated by Russian film critics as "intellectual thrash", a special genre of modern cinema. According to the plot, all the characters of the film are volunteers of some experiment. They are subjected not only to scientific surveys, but also to verification by everyday tests - love, friendship, curiosity and envy. As a result, the originally conceived scientific experiment turns into a social one, and the consequences threaten to become unpredictable.

About the corked world

After participating in the "Special View" sub-competition of the Cannes Film Festival, Nikolai Khomeriki, whose films have already become the property of the world cinema community, decides to tell the world a fairy tale in a creative alliance with the cameraman Alisher Khamidhodzhaev, according to the scenario of the screenwriter Alexander Rodionov. The writer managed to find a new story and create a script for the film about the corked world. The name of the new project was selected with particular care, as the authors tried to put in the name a certain message. "Fairy tale about the darkness" immediately after the creation was positioned as a Russian art house. The plot acquainted the viewer with the fate of the main character - a very beautiful and clean girl who, working in the children's room of the police, tries in every possible way to adapt to the surrounding reality. In many of the paintings, including this Khomeriki project, an ex-ballerina, actress Alisa Khazanova was shot. The director met her in France. At that time, Hazanova was in captivity of deep depression due to a serious injury that interrupted her ballet career at the peak of her success. It was the director who was destined to become that person who gave the girl hope, helped to find a new profession. "Fairy-tale ..." famous film critics called the beginning of the rapid evolution of the director, the flowering of his original stylistics.

Dynamic, but not mass cinema

"The Tale of Darkness" and the "Hearts of Boomerangs" that followed it, took part in the competition screening of the "Special View" of the Cannes Film Festival. The last tape is black and white, light and devilishly beautiful. Homerki's offspring were again received with admiration, and for the director entrenched the status of a Cannes favorite. The plot of the drama "Hearts of Boomerangs" would be ideal for a long melodramatic television series. The young guy Kostya, who works as an assistant to the machinist, is given a disappointing diagnosis. According to the verdict of medical specialists, he can die at any time because of inoperable heart disease. The hero holds emotions in himself, and no longer thinking about the meaning of life, tries to take everything from her.

Disarming unpretentiousness

The next project of the director - "Onega", disarms the beholder with his unpretentiousness. The film is a protracted plan for a little girl looking at the camera without blinking, mounted with a long plan of calm water that flashes in the train window. Timing of the project is only three minutes. Removed by the unchangeable operator Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev, Nikolay Khomeriki most willingly cooperates with him. The director's wife in an interview with the media told that this short film is a snapshot shot during the filming of the film about autistic children Lyubov Arkus. By the way, the director's wife is Stasya Khomeriki-Grankovskaya, a dramatic actress. Most recently, she made her debut in her husband's series The Secrets of the City of En (2015), playing a secondary role for Ida.