BOROVSK’S EFFECT / ЭФФЕКТ БОРОВСКА

Author: Boris Minaev Directors: Yulia Grebennikova, Polina Zavadskaya Producers and Distributors: Asya Druyanova, Daria Khrenova Studio: The Magic Mountain Year: 2019 Duration: 66 min Country: Russia Language: Russian, English subtitles Vladimir Ovchinnikov is the ‘Russian Banksy’ – a street artist and a political activist. Because of his art, hundreds of tourists have visited Borovsk, an old Russian town. On the town’s walls he paints the portraits of famous Russian writers and historical figures, as well as photographs of Borovsk’s citizens killed during Stalin’s dictatorship. These painted images, however, are regularly destroyed by officials. But the will of the artist is irrepressible, and he recreates them over and over again. The film was produced with the support of the Heinrich Böll Foundation.