DOVLATOV

By Alexey GERMAN JR.

BAD UNICORN - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline

Biography - Completed 2018


Festivals
& Awards

Berlinale - EFM 2018
Competition - Silver Bear
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Biography, Drama
    • Countries
    • RUSSIA, POLAND, SERBIA
    • Languages
    • RUSSIAN
    • Duration
    • 126 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alexey GERMAN JR.
    • Synopsis
    • Leningrad, November 1971. The city is shrouded in fog. Another anniversary of the revolution is being celebrated, but the country is not making any progress – politically, economically or culturally. Sergei has first-hand experience of this stasis. The young writer’s manuscripts are regularly rejected by the official media; his view on things and people is not desired. Others are experiencing similar problems, one of them is his friend Joseph Brodsky whom the state forces into exile. Sergei is however determined to stay and lead a normal life with his wife Lena and daughter Katya. He wants to write about discovering reality: about shipyard workers, or the construction of the metro where one day the bodies of thirty children killed during the Second World War are uncovered.