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Completed - RUSSIAN - Drama - 126 minutes

Log Line

The life of an insightful, brilliant, ironic and very talented individual who tries to preserve decency and talent in spite of the will of the state machinery.

Year of production : 2018

Director(s) : Alexey GERMAN JR.
Writer(s) : Alexey GERMAN JR., Yulia TUPIKINA
Cast : Milan MARIC, Helena SUJECKA, Danila KOZLOVSKY, Artur BESCHASTNY, Anton SHAGIN

Producer(s) : Andrey SAVELIEV (SAGa film), Artem VASSILIEV (METRAFILMS), Konstantin ERNST (FIRST CHANNEL)

Synopsis

DOVLATOV charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky while watching his Soviet artist friends getting crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

Production

Country(ies) : RUSSIA, POLAND, SERBIA

BRAZIL IMOVISION
CHINA TIMES VISION
ESTONIA Mar 09, 2018 ESTINFILM
FRANCE PARADIS FILMS
GREECE AMA FILMS
NETHERLAND Jul 11, 2019 EYE FILMMUSEUM
ROMANIA BAD UNICORN

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Festivals and Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2018 Competition
Berlin European Film Market (EFM) 2018
Karlovy Vary IFF 2018 Horizons
Berlinale - EFM 2018 (SILVER BEAR FOR OUTSTANDING ARTISTIC CONTRIBUTION)


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