Lenfilm

History

2024

Appointment of Eduard Suvorov as Director General

In September 2024, Eduard Suvorov became the general director of the Lenfilm film studio. He replaced Oleg Shcherbakov, who in February 2024 was put on the wanted list under a criminal article. Read more here

Account blocking

The Federal Tax Service (FTS) has blocked the accounts of the unprofitable Lenfilm film studio. The decision to suspend operations on six bank accounts of the film company was made on August 1, 2024.

According to the Business News Agency, the decisions of the Federal Tax Service affected Lenfilm's accounts in six banks, including VTB, Raiffeisen Bank, Bank SGB, St. Petersburg, FC Otkritie and Solid Bank. The documents indicate that the blocking of accounts was carried out "to ensure the execution of the decision to collect tax, collection, penalties and (or) a fine."

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Lenfilm's financial difficulties are not limited to problems with the tax service. In early July 2024, the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) opened enforcement proceedings in the amount of ₽7,6 million by decision of the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

Despite the statements of the management of the film studio about the intentions to get out of a unprofitable state, the financial situation of Lenfilm remains difficult. At the end of 2023, the company recorded a loss of ₽111,3 million with revenue of ₽184,1 million. At the same time, the management expenses of the film studio increased compared to the previous year and reached ₽134,2 million.

The situation is complicated by the presence of a large loan of ₽1,5 billion received by Lenfilm from VTB for the modernization of the film studio. Earlier, VTB Chairman Andrei Kostin announced the need for the film company to apply for state support in order to avoid default.

In August 2024, the chairman of the board of directors of Lenfilm, Fyodor Bondarchuk, asked the president Russia Vladimir Putin for help in repaying the debt. The head states instructed the relevant departments to work out this issue.^[1]

The general director of the film studio Fedor Shcherbakov is wanted

In February 2024 MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS Russia , Fyodor Lenfilm Shcherbakov, the general director of the film studio, was put on the wanted list. The agency's website states that the cinematographer is wanted under a criminal article, but it does not specify which one. More. here

2020: Fedor Shcherbakov replaced Inessa Yurchenko as general director

In September 2020, Fedor Shcherbakov replaced Inessa Yurchenko as general director of Lenfilm.

1934: Chapter "Lenfilm" Adrian Piotrovsky offers Prokofiev the plot of "Romeo and Juliet" for ballet

The history of the creation of the ballet Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev-Lavrovsky linked the Bolshoi Theater and Mariinsky with an inextricable thread (at that time - GATOB and a little later the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater). 1934. Sergei Radlov, then the head of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater, invited his longtime acquaintance and chess partner Sergei Prokofiev to compose a ballet on the plot of the tragedy Romeo and Juliet. (Subsequently, Lavrovsky will write that although Radlov had nothing to do with the final version of the libretto, he nevertheless considered it necessary to keep his name in the list of authors, since it was Radlov who owned the idea of ​ ​ choosing this Shakespeare play as the literary source).

Meanwhile, in the composer's presentation of events, the authorship of the idea was "attributed" to another person - the playwright, critic, theater host and in addition to the artistic director of Lenfilm Adrian Piotrovsky: "At the end of December (1934) I returned to Leningrad specifically for negotiations with the Kirov Theater. I expressed my desire to find a lyrical plot for ballet... They began to sort through the plots: Piotrovsky called "Pelleas and Melisande '," Tristan and Isolde', "Romeo and Juliet '. In the last plot, I immediately "clung" - it's better not to find! " But in the premiere posters of 1940, Piotrovsky's name could not appear in any case: in the 37th he was repressed and shot.

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