Rubljovka – Putin's Street - road to bliss - Strasse zur Gluckseligkeit (2007) - Irene Langemann Рублeвка.mp4

www.imdb.com/title/tt1070399/



Whole film

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KweGk1aUMHI

or
http://vdownload.eu/watch/1231744-irene-langemann-rubljovka-stra-223-e-zur-gl-252-ckseligkeit-2007.html

Interview with director:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=37oxACOC0hU

www.german-films.de/filmarchive/browse-archive/view/detail/film/rubljovka-road-to-bliss/

www.rubljovka.de/content/view/13/99/lang,en/



http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubljowka

Rubljovka Road is the traffic artery connecting the powerhouse Moscow with the Russian outback.
At all times, the region bordering on Rubljovka has had a magnetic attraction for the ruling elite classes: Tsars, dictators, presidents. Of course, also present-day head of state Putin resides here. In Putin's Russia, Rubljovka has become synonymous with wealth, social ascent and decadent lifestyles. Tell-tale signs of the past and gross excesses of Russian cut-throat capitalism have created a bizarre microcosm that does not have a parallel elsewhere in this giant empire. Nouveau riche upstarts have caused the price of property on the Rubljovka to rocket sky-high. Now the fight for the last remaining pieces of land has broken out. The last remaining huts of the poor are swept aside to make way for the palaces of the wealthy by means that could not be any more unfair or brutal. The Russian State, celebrating an imperial comeback bolstered by petrol-billions, has declared open season on the weak and poor. And hardly anyone dares to protest. No wonder Rubljovka is a strictly guarded maximum security area, where many things are hushed up and kept under wraps. In spite of grudgingly granted filming permits, the film team was constantly harassed and threatened by the Russian security service FSB, traffic police and each and every security company. Many parts were filmed with a hidden camera. Nevertheless, the film was completed.

The camera follows losers and profiteers, rich and poor, the powerful and their string puppets through their daily lives, in which the social divide has become increasingly wide. The film draws a social portrait of present-day Russia, in which Putin's "steered democracy" increasingly assumes dictatorial features.


Irene Langemann was born in the Omsk region of the Soviet Union in 1959. She studied Acting and Germanics at the Tcepkin Theater Academy in Moscow. From 1980-1990, she worked as an actress, director and theater writer in Moscow. In 1983, she began moderating and directing for Russian television. In 1986, she became a director and scene editor at the Nasch Theater in Moscow. She moved to Germany in 1990 and was an editor at Deutsche Welle TV in Cologne until 1997. Since 1997, she has been working as a freelance filmmaker. A selection of her films includes: Nirgendwo verwurzelt (1993), Die Goetter bitte ich um eine Aenderung (1994), Imperium der Traeume (1996), Auf Wiedersehen in Berlin (1997), Zwischen hier und dort (1997), Das Ende einer Odyssee (1998), Klasse(n) Klaenge (1999), Fit fuer Leben und Arbeit (2000), Russlands Wunderkinder (1998-2000), Lale Andersen: The Voice of Lili Marleen (2001), Martins' Passion (Die Martins Passion, 2003), Ices and Oranges (2004), Vodka, Art, and Fashion (2004), Goldap - In Polish Siberia (2005), and Rubljovka (2007).






Rublevka: "The Beverly Hills" of rich Russians
www.visitorline.com/journal/34323/

Anyone who has less than $10 million in the bank becomes pretty much an outsider in Rublevka, that road, not far from Moscow, along which lie delightful villas next to other imposing constructions.

Razdory, Barvikha, Zhukova, Usovo, Barki are names associated with the charming Russian backwoods, with little huts and vegetable patches. This did in fact exist here once upon a time. The elite, the class which emerged during the Soviet era, noticed this little spot on the upper reaches of the Moskva River long ago and lay there its roots.

Now the 30km long Rublevskoe Shosse, which stretches west from Kutuzovsky Prospect, has become a sanctuary for the super rich. Those who have less than $10 million in their bank accounts are seen in the eyes of Rublevka residents as despicable middle class.