Scriptwriter: Eleonora Vertogradskaya

Directors:

Eleonora Vertogradskaya, Konstantin Grinberg-Vertogradsky

Documentary, Biography / Russia, Israel

Languages: Russian, English, Hebrew

62 min, 2022

Postproduction

Grinberg 101

The death of Savely Grinberg in 2003 marked the end of the Russian futurism. The film
“Grinberg 101” is a tribute to the life and work of the famous Russian and then Israeli
poet, futurist, member of the Mayakovsky Brigade, master of palindrome, creator of the
original Onegostishya genre, and poet-translator of such famous Israeli poets as David
Avidan, Yona Volakh, Yehuda Amikhai, Shlomo ibn Gabirol, Nathan Zak and others.

People who knew Saveliy Grinberg closely or were influenced by his work share their
memories in this documentary. Among them: Yoram Barsela (former Deputy Attorney
General of the State of Israel), Avigdor Lieberman (Israeli Defense Minister and politician),
Mikhail Korol (poet and scholar-researcher of Jerusalem), as well as poets Gennady Aygi,
Alexander Delfinov, Boris Kamyanov and others. The film contains not only a selection of
the most famous poems, but also numerous drawings and sketches of the poet.

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About the Film Director

Eleonora Vertogradskaya (1935-2020) was the co-Founder of Grinberg Bros, Director and Scriptwriter for the film “Grinberg 101”.

Graduate of the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University, student of Sergei Mikhailovich Bondi. PhD in Psychology, Professor of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK).

The work of Savely Grinberg

  • “With the death of Savely Grinberg, Russian Futurism died” - Evgeny Vitkovsky
  • "Savely translated You with witchcraft intellectualism ...." - Andrey Voznesensky
  • “The Artist Developing the Word" - Gennady Aigi
  • "Before us is a genuinely author's book of a translator, who is unconditionally equal to the translated author" - Nekod Singer (about the "Collected Poems of David Avidan" translated by Savely Grinberg ")

In the media

Even though he worked until he passed away in 1954 at the age of 58, his 1918’s ambitious debut film “The Anniversary of the Revolution”, was supposed to be his masterpiece and career highlight. But until now it’s been impossible to truly measure Vertov’s achievements as the film was unavailable to view.
Distinguished Russian film scholar Nikolai Izvolov describes himself as a sort of archaeologist. The Moscow-based historian and researcher spent a great deal of time carefully restoring and piecing together fragments from other historical films found in the archives that were originally used for Dziga Vertov’s first film, The Anniversary of the Revolution, made in 1918.
Anniversary of the Revolution (Godovshchina revoliutsii, 1918) was Dziga Vertov's first directorial and editorial experience. Until1967 the film was considered lost as researches put no effort in finding it. But then Viktor Listov donated some parts of this gigantic compilation film, which consisted of historical chronicles documenting the events in Russia from 1917 to 1918.
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