DOVLATOV

By Alexey GERMAN JR.

LEOPARDO FILMES - as DISTR PORTUGAL

Drama - Completed 2018

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.

Festivals
& 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
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • RUSSIA, POLAND, SERBIA
    • Languages
    • RUSSIAN
    • Duration
    • 126 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alexey GERMAN JR.
    • Writer(s)
    • Alexey GERMAN JR., Yulia TUPIKINA
    • 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.