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A ROOM AND A HALF

POLTORY KOMNATY ILI SENTIMENTALNOYE PUTESHESTVIE NA RODINU

By Andrey KHRZHANOVSKY

Drama - Completed 2009

- Year of production
- 2009
- Genres
- Drama, Art - Culture, Biography
- Countries
- RUSSIA
- Languages
- RUSSIAN
- Duration
- 130 mn
- Director(s)
- Andrey KHRZHANOVSKY
- Writer(s)
- Yury ARABOV, Andrey KHRZHANOVSKY
- Cast
- Alisa FREUNDLICH, Sergey YURSKY, Grigory DITYATKOVSKY, Artem SMOLA
- Producer(s)
- Andrey KHRZHANOVSKY (SCHOOL-STUDIO SHAR), Artem VASSILIEV (SCHOOL-STUDIO SHAR)
- Synopsis
- When asked in an interview whether he ever intended to return to his Motherland, Joseph Brodsky replied: "Such a journey could only take place anonymously..."
  
  The creators of this film imagined that the journey in question was undertaken after all, selecting the genre of an ironic fairytale. The poet sails to the country of his childhood, and with him we traverse not only geographical expanses, but travel through time as well; stringing together a number of facts from the Nobel Prize Laureate's biography, we return to the USSR of the 50s and early 60s, soaking up the atmosphere of the "European" city of Petersburg, to this day Russia's cultural center.
  
  Along with live-action sequences, the film features animation, as well as documentary footage concerning Brodsky and his milieu.