Biography
Kirill Radchenko - the operator of the Russian film crew of journalists, shot in the Central African Republic (CAR) on July 31, 2018. He and his colleagues - the Military Correspondent Orhan Djemal and the director Alexander Rastorguev - came to the CAR for filming the documentary film about a private military company and the heroic killed, fulfilling their work.Childhood and youth
Cyril was born in 1985 in Moscow. While as a teenager, imbued with the magic world of cinema. But the boy fascinated not so much acting game as beauty and composition frame. As a real artist, it was attracted to the means of expressive image.
Soon Kirill picked up the camera. The young man took a lot, experimented, looking for his own individual style, handwriting. From amateur shooting to professional passed several years. Only in 2007, Radchenko entered the college of art crafts No. 59 to learn at the film mechanic.
Career
Friends and colleagues remember Cyril as a person honest, good, hardworking and selflessly in love with the cinema. To be closer to his beloved art, he and his brother Roman gotta working at the Museum of Cinema, where, being a film mechanic, demonstrated to the audience masterpieces of world cinema. Later, Kirill worked at the cinema museum by the administrator, and after his closure, two years (2010-2012) worked in the journalist's house. At this time, Radchenko is already a lot and professionally takes off, collaborates with companies by TROPPIERE Group and Ga Studio, taking off the video on their order.
In 2012, Kirill left the house of the journalist and the next two years worked as a film mechanic in the public center. Mossovet. In 2015, Radchenko came to the Arseny District "District" project - the Internet series about Russian realities. Worked for a year assistant operator and photographer.
"And this is, despite the fact that the TV series did not have, we did not pay money," says the general producer of the series of Arseny Gonchukov. - Cyril then only came to the movies, dreamed of being the operator, burned by the profession. So I remember: silent, reliable, hardy, and as a person - pure, honest and very calm. Always behind the camera! "2016 became a turning point in a young operator's career. It is taken for serious and risky work, it is arranged in the Network Information Agency Anna News, specializing in military journalism, namely news and reports from hot spots. Cyril with a camera behind the shoulder rides from one hot spot of Syria to another. Instead of the filmography - reports from the site of hostilities.
The publication of "Medusa" reports that Radchenko began work in the Agency on a volunteer basis. But it did not diminish his zeal and desire to be in the center of events. Anna News Military Correspondent Sergei Shilov told in an interview with Meduse that Cyril was shot during the hostilities for Aleppo, spent a week in a besieged deyre-en-dawn without a meal, in the midst of winter, flew with colleagues over the territory of IHIL.
Today, the question of what Movied them, his friends and colleagues are answering, those who were next to him in the moments of fear and deadly danger. In their opinion, Kirill did not tolerate injustice, inequality, discrimination. Radchenko did not hide his opposition views. It appreciated that in Anna News he allows him to openly express his opinion and reflect it in work.
Even before working at the Agency, Kirill took part in rallies in support of the adherents of the "Bolotny Affairs". And in March 2018, when the chief Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny organized a trip to Chechnya to observe the presidential elections, set off among the first. It was there that the operator met the director Alexander Rastorguev. Together they worked on the documentary "Choosing Russia / ELECTION RUSSIA". It was there, in Grozny, Rastorguev offered Kirill to go to Africa for filming a new film for military topics.
Personal life
About the personal life of Kirill Radchenko there is no information. This page of the biography has always remained for the scene of his professional interests and civil debt. It is known that the farewell ceremony with the operator at the request of relatives was held in a closed atmosphere in the circle of family members and the closest.Death
Kirill Radchenko and his colleagues were killed on the night of July 31. The car in which the film crew from the capital of the CAR, Bangui, to the city of Bambari, was shelled from the ambush, said the mayor of the nearby city of Sibu - Henri Depele. Journalists died in place, the driver managed to survive. The dead were found and identified only the next day, two had a certificate of "news" with them. Later, the publication reported that he did not send employees to the CAR.
Soon it became known that journalists went to Africa for filming the film about Russian mercenaries on request of the Investigations Management Center (SDG) Mikhail Khodorkovsky. There was no official accreditation with documentalists, they arrived in the country as ordinary tourists.
Among the voiced versions of the occurrence were put forward - robbery (the group was carrying expensive technique and cash dollars) and the murder of militants of the Muslim rebel movement "Seleka". Currently, the investigation committee of Russia is being investigated the causes of the death of journalists. The bodies of the dead were delivered to Moscow on August 4th. The funeral of Kirill Radchenko took place on August 7 at the Bulanikovsky cemetery.
Projects
- 2015 - "District of Darkness"
- 2016-2018 - Films for the Agency Anna News
- 2018 - "Choosing Russia / ELECTING RUSSIA"