Grigory Amnuel, whose mother's nationality is German, has recently taken an increasingly prominent place in the media space. He is a director and politician who often makes controversial and ambiguous judgments. At the same time, he is most active in public life in Latvia.
Director's biography
Grigory Amnuel admits - nationality has never caused him any particular problems. He is known to the general public primarily as a director of documentaries. Most of his paintings are on religious themes or deal with government issues. He also owns several journalistic articles and books.
Grigory Amnuel, whose nationality, although German, is a native Muscovite. He was born in the Russian capital in 1957. His maternal relatives moved from Latvia to Moscow during the first revolution, Grigory Amnuel lifts the veil of secrecy about his family history. At that time, few people were interested in their nationality. Therefore, they have photos in abundance in their home archives. Kaliningrad, Tallinn and Jurmala of that period. You can still see the old German names in the pictures.
Under the millstones of repression relatives of Amnuel Grigory Markovich did not fall. But over time, the Soviet Union began to experience difficulties because of their origin. For example, his mother was not admitted to the Moscow State Institute of International Relations because of her German roots.
Amnuel's personal life
Amnuel Grigory Markovich himself after school entered the Pedagogical Institute in Tobolsk. He received his higher education at the Faculty of History.
Details about his childhood and youth are not preserved. He himself is reluctant to talk about this period of his life. It is only known that it was during his student years in Tobolsk that Grigory Amnuel married. The family, however, did not come out strong. Soon the newlyweds broke up, not getting along.
After some time, the hero of our article entered into a second official marriage. When he was 23 years old, he married a Latvian girl. In 1981 their daughter was born. At that time, Amnuel had already graduated from the institute in Tobolsk and lived in Tallinn.
Creative career
Director Grigory Amnuel for the first time in the creative environment announced himself in Moscow theaters. On the theater stage of the capital, he began working as a director. He worked at the Taganka Comedy and Drama Theater, at the Satire Theater on Triumphal Square.
On the stage of the Theater of Tolerance carried out a jointproject with the Americans called "Crime in Laramie". He has acted as a producer at many independent film festivals in Europe. For example, he oversaw the festival of Russian cinema and culture, which was held annually in France and Italy.
Amnuel documentary
Director Grigory Amnuel made dozens of sports and documentaries. The brightest of them were "Redlich - people from the other side." The picture tells about the tragic fate of Russians who survived the emigration of 1917. The film is dedicated to the Russian philosopher Roman Nikolaevich Redlich. His fate is somewhat similar to the fate of Gregory Amnuel. The biography begins with the fact that both were born into a family of Russified Germans.
Redlich emigrated with his family to Germany in 1933. Graduated from Berlin University. In 1940 he became a member of the People's Labor Union of Russian Solidarists. They opposed Hitler and Stalin, calling to be only with the Russian people.
During the Second World War, he promoted the ideas of this organization. He was engaged in propaganda in the camps of Soviet prisoners of war, created cells of the Union in the territories occupied by the Germans. As a result, in 1944 the German political police put him on the wanted list for conducting anti-German activities. Until the end of the war, he had to hide under the pseudonym "Captain Vorobyov".
After the end of the war, he actively took up science. He developed a direction in Russian philosophy, which he called "solidarism". He returned to his homeland in 1991. Continuing to develop the ideas of the people's labor union already in modern Russia. He died in Wiesbaden in 2005. He was 94 years old.
Grigory Amnuel received a diploma from the international film festival of human rights films "Stalker" for this film. His biography has many film awards.
Amnuel's confession
Many of Amnuel's films, both documentary and sports, have often received prestigious awards and prizes.
In 1991, for the painting "Awakening, a chronicle of critical days" he received a medal from Russian President Boris Yeltsin as a defender of a free Russia. Grigory Amnuel, whose filmography includes dozens of films, has also received awards for sports films.
Sports movies
In 1993, the director won the prize at the International Sports Film Festival in Moscow for the film "Almost American Russian", as well as the prize for the best film about the Russian Ice Hockey Federation.
For the film "Fire and Ice" was awarded the Sports Film Festival in Milan for the best reportage film. In 1995 he was already noted by the Olympic Committee for "Christmas dream, or a portrait against the background of hockey" Grigory Amnuel. The filmography of the director does not end there. Moreover, he was not limited to working in the cinema.
During that period, he actively made journalistic programs and programs on domestic television, including on central channels, as well as in the Latvian media. In his analytical projects, he touched upon the topicsinterethnic relations between Russia and the B altic countries, raised controversial and controversial historical issues.
Work in the media and creativity
In Russian culture, Amnuel was first seriously noticed when he became the organizer of a tour in Moscow of the famous Soviet-Latvian violinist Gidon Kremer. Amnuel organized his first performances in the capital in the late 80s - early 90s. The maternal relatives of the musician were partly of German origin. In this they were similar to the hero of this article.
Also, Amnuel was the organizer of the once popular festival "Lockinghausen Music". He repeatedly brought the chamber music orchestra of the Cologne Philharmonic to Russia with concerts.
From his latest initiatives. In 2015, he proposed to erect a monument to the director of the library of foreign literature, Ekaterina Genieva, who has worked in this library for more than 40 years. In April 2016, the monument appeared in the courtyard of the cultural institution. Amnuel took on all the financial costs of installing the monument.
Amnuel also showed himself as a music producer. Participated in organizing the filming of clips by Anatoly Gerasimov, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya and Viktor Popov.
Public and political activities
As a politician, Grigory Amnuel began to show himself on the pages of the socio-political magazine "Posev". In it he repeatedlypublished his publicistic opuses. This edition is rich in history. This is the official journal of the People's Labor Union, one of whose propagandists was Redlich. It has been published continuously since 1945.
In recent years, Amnuel heads the discussion club "International Dialogue". The purpose of this organization is to conduct all kinds of events related to culture, science and the social sphere. The club has a school where anyone can get acquainted with European countries and form their own opinion about their international cooperation with Russia. At least that's what the initiators of the club say.
Also, Amnuel holds the post of Deputy General Director of the Russian-American company ASK, which was established back in 1987 for joint partnership cooperation between then-Soviet and American filmmakers. Manages the European division of this company.
In recent years, he has been actively invited to participate in various round tables and discussions on the problems of the B altic countries, the Caucasus, as well as mutual cooperation between Russia and NATO countries.
