PADUO POCTOBA - Эксклюзив - Форт Росс - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

The music of Rostov composer Alexei Khevelev will be featured in the film by famous American documentary director Mitchell Johnson. The film is dedicated to Fort Ross, a Russian fortress in California, founded in the first half of the 19th century. Maria Pogrebnyak will continue the topic.

The fortress was founded by the Russian-American company for fishing and fur trade. It was then sold to a large American landowner. It is now a California Historical Park. Only the house of Commandant Rotchev has survived to this day; everything else is a reconstruction. One of the main attractions of Fort Ross: orchards with apples and cherries. These trees have been growing there for more than two hundred years. It was the garden that became the main character of Mitchell Johnson's new film. The director asked Alexey Khevelev to write music for the episodes associated with him. The result was a calm and melodic piano suite, the Rostov composer told us.

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Indians lived near the Fort Ross site in the 19th century. The Russians often hired them to work in the settlement in exchange for housing, clothing and food. Indians still live there. The director talked a lot with them to collect legends about living together with Russian colonists. Johnson even took some Indians with him to St. Petersburg and took them to a museum where the things and tools of the first Russian colonists are kept. The director is going to dedicate the next film about Fort Ross to the Indians.

Mitchell Johnson, 64 years old. Born in Dallos, Texas. As a child, I really loved the radio and listened to Russian stations. After school he entered the Film Institute in Los Angeles. He became interested in documentaries, although his filmography also includes several feature films. For example, the drama “World Without Waves” is about the life of a television producer from New York who loses his purpose in life and moves to a small Texas town. Johnson became interested in Russian history in the 90s. Then, together with journalist Vladimir Pozner, he filmed “Red Files” - about propaganda in the Soviet Union. 12 years ago, an American married a Rostovite. According to the director's wife, Svetlana, their acquaintance prompted Mitchell to immerse himself in a kind of study of Russia.

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Johnson made his first film about Fort Ross four years ago. The soundtrack was then recorded by the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra. Last year, the director became interested in wooden architecture. He traveled around the Russian North, visited the Karelian island of Kizhi and made a film about wooden churches.

Johnson's film about the gardens of Fort Ross is expected to be released this year. Perhaps it will be shown on central Russian television channels, as has already happened.

Let us add that this is not the first soundtrack for Rostov composer Alexei Hevelev.