Tony Pemberton was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1966. He graduated from the State University of New York at Purchase with a BFA in film in 1990, and later the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts: Bard College with an MFA in film in 1993. Cited in Variety as One of Ten Directors to Watch in 2000, he has previously shown films at The Anthology Film Archives, the Kino Museum in Moscow, Russia, The Whitney American Museum, and the Clemens Center for the Performing Arts in Elmira, NY, as well as various festivals in America and Europe. His past and future projects have been awarded funding from The Princess Grace Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Arts Matters and Arts Link. Being a fan of foreign films as a genre, he dreamed of being on the other side of the world making one of these films for himself. Thus was born the idea of Beyond the Ocean (2000). In order to make this film, he moved to Russia and now continues to work between there and New York, planning more international projects. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
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Unemployed Russian poet Pyotr Voyd arrested by KGB during the 1991 Soviet August Coup, by tortures he loses consciousness and appears in 1919 post-revolutionary Russia, where he fights on the same side with the legendary Red cavalry commander Chapaev and his machine-gunner Anka. The strange memory lapses all the time throw him to the bandits' Moscow of nineties, then to the Russian Civil War back and forth, again and again. Pyotr learns how long may raging two winds of changes simultaneously in the head of one and the same person.