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BUDDHA'S LITTLE FINGER

By Tony PEMBERTON

FILMOPTION INTERNATIONAL - as SALES All rights, World / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, World

Drama - Completed 2015

A drama set during the failed coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev.

- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- GERMANY, CANADA, RUSSIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 83 mn
- Director(s)
- Tony PEMBERTON
- Writer(s)
- Tony PEMBERTON, Viktor PELEVIN, William JENNINGS, Saul FUSSINER
- Cast
- Marc-André GRONDIN, Phila VIITALA, Toby KEBBELL, Karine VANASSE, Trystan PÜTTER, Ivan SHVEDOFF, André HENNICKE, Stipe ERCEG, Lilith STANGENBERG, Anne-Marie CADIEUX
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-5192-0000-U-0000-0000-L
- EIDR
- 10.5240/689C-40F1-AAD1-FF11-A39A-M
- Producer(s)
- Martin PAUL-HUS (Amerique Films), Benny DRECHSEL (Rohfilm), Karsten STÖTER (Rohfilm)
- Synopsis
- In Moscow 1991, communist hardliners try to oust Gorbachov from power. For Pyotr Voyd a struggling poet, this means nothing, life is the same as always: hard and unforgiving. He has no money, no prospects and no hope, therefore he believes in nothing, not politics, not poetry, definitely not revolution, evolution or democracy. Only one thing is certain: when he is with Anna, he is happy. Pyotr’s life is thrown into a whirlwind of odd and unconnected situations or so it appears at first. He is first recruited by a gangster crew, led by Volodin, looking for the elusive “Mongolian” and his secret weapon, and then experiences strange blackouts, waking up tied to a hospital bed being interrogated and drugged by government psychiatrists and finally transported to 1919 post-revolution Russia where he befriends the legendary commander Chapayev and his crack machine gunner, ANNA. Soon Pyotr is on the run simultaneously in the Moscow of gangster capitalism of 1991 and in Ural Mountains of the precarious post-revolutionary 1919. Two revolutions can’t exist in one man’s head at the same time for very long!