Konstantin Fam

Konstantin Kong-Takovich Fam (Russian: Константин Конг-Такович Фам, born 13 July 1972, Pervomayskiy, USSR) is a Ukrainian-born independent director, producer, and screenwriter.

After he sought political asylum in the Soviet Union, he was not allowed to live in big cities and the family was under the constant KGB supervision.

Konstantin lived in the town of Pervomayskiy until the age of 15 and then entered the Dnipropetrovsk State Theatre School for the Puppetry Arts.

However, Fam admitted years later that his specialty provided him with the extensive experience in the construction of music, staging, as well as in the ability to animate inanimate objects.

In 1997, Fam entered Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), the Course of Screenwriting headed by the great Valentin Yezhov.

Constantine had a dream to earn the necessary amount of money, to shoot a comedy based on his own scenario and start working on his own projects.

Witnesses is the historical drama that consists of three short films Shoes, Brutus[3][4] and Violin united by the idea to be produced in memory of the greatest tragedy of the 20th century.

The project is being elaborated in the memory of the perished people because there is hardly a single Jewish family that didn't lose their loved ones on the run of the mass destruction in the 20th-century catastrophe.

The key purpose of the project is to spread the knowledge about the history and to remind the young generation of the tragedy in order to prevent it in the future.

[14][15] Filmmakers from Russia, Romania,[16][17] Israel, the United States, Moldova, Belarus and the Czech Republic participated in the production.

The main roles were performed by Lenn Kudryavitsky, Oksana Fandera, Vladimir Koshevoi, Vyacheslav Chepurchenko, Mikhail Gorevoy and others.

In this 2019 film, the testament of a former concentration camp prisoner confronts and turns the lives of two young people from different worlds around, shedding light on the tragic history of their family.