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BRODSKY IS NOT A POET

BRODSKY NE POET

By Ilya BELOV

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Biography - Completed 2015

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Biography, Documentary, Art - Culture
- Countries
- RUSSIA
- Languages
- RUSSIAN
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 100 mn
- Director(s)
- Ilya BELOV
- Writer(s)
- Nikolay KARTOZIYA, Anton ZHELNOV
- Cast
- Joseph ELLIS, Strobe TALBOTT, Yuz ALESHKOVSKY, Jacob LERNER
- Producer(s)
- Nikolay KARTOZIYA (CENTRAL TELEVISION)
- Synopsis
- Fellow poets, excited ladies, the love of his life, Marina Basmanova, two psychiatric hospitals, KGB interrogations, a People’s Court, prison, exile, forced emigration. All of this was Brodsky’s Leningrad. The biography, which was written for, in Akhmatova’s words, “our red-head”.
  On the fourth of June 1972, when the plane carrying Brodsky took off from Pulkovo airport, this biography ended. And a new life began that almost no one in his homeland is aware of.
  Russia, America, Italy, Sweden, Finland – the filmmakers have traced the journey of their hero, perhaps the most well-travelled of all Russian writers. The places, that became his biography. And the people, that defined his fate.
  FOR THE FIRST TIME, VIEWERS CAN SEE INSIDE THE POET’S AMERICAN ARCHIVE
  — More than 100 unseen personal photographs
  — Never before seen readings and interviews
  — Home video footage filmed by friends
  — Personal letters to his parents, friends and adversaries
  — Unique documentation: documents from Brodsky’s interrogations, his medical history, contracts with leading US universities
  — Unpublished poems and essays
  — The author’s collection of drawings
  — The story of a private diplomatic war. Letters from Henry Kissinger and Edward Kennedy trying to bring Brodsky’s parents over from the US.