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THE GEOGRAPHER DRANK HIS GLOBE AWAY

GEOGRAF GLOBUS PROPIL

By Alexandr VELEDINSKY (2006 "ALIVE"; 2004 "IT'S RUSSIAN")

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Drama - Completed 2013

It is about Russian restless soul, or in other words is a full of self-irony story of a floundering loser.
Adaptation of bestselling novel by Aleksey Ivanov (has been published in France (Fayard) and Holland (Meulenhoff).

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Countries
- RUSSIA
- Languages
- RUSSIAN
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 120 mn
- Director(s)
- Alexandr VELEDINSKY (2006 "ALIVE"; 2004 "IT'S RUSSIAN")
- Writer(s)
- Alexandr VELEDINSKY, Rauf KUBAEV, Valeriy TODOROVSKIY (2008 "HIPSTERS"), Aleksey IVANOV (NOVEL)
- Cast
- Konstantin KHABENSKIY ("TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY" BY TOMAS ALFREDSON, "WANTED" BY TIMUR BEKMAMBETOV,"DAY WATCH, Elena LYADOVA ("ELENA" BY ANDREY ZVYAGINTSEV; "TAMBOURINE, DRUM" BY ALEKSEI MIZGIRYOV; "DREAMING OF SPACE", Aleksandr ROBAK, Anna UKOLOVA, Evgenia BRIK, Agrippina STEKLOVA ("KOKTEBEL" BY BORIS KHLEBNIKOV, ALEKSEY POPOGREBSKIY, "ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A WOMAN", Anfisa CHERNYKH, Anna SINYAKONA, Andrey PRYTKOV, Ilya ILYINYKH, Artyom ORLOV, Viktor UZUN
- Producer(s)
- Vadim GORYAINOV (Red Arrow Film Company), Valeriy TODOROVSKIY (Red Arrow Film Company), Leonid LEBEDEV (Red Arrow Film Company)
- Synopsis
- Young biologist Viktor Sluzhkin, suffering from lack of money, becomes a teacher of geography in a secondary school in the city of Perm’. At first he has to fight with pupils but he soon becomes their friend, taking them rafting. He quarrels with the Deputy Principal, drinks wine with his friends, tries to get on with his wife and takes his young daughter to the kindergarten. It is just a life… but Aleksey Ivanov wrote this ordinary private story with such recklessness, such tenderness, such acuteness that The Geographer Drank His Globe Away became, as it is often the case with good books, a story about everyone. It is a story about everyone who lost his way in life, about everyone who sometimes felt himself as desperately lonely as Viktor Sluzhkin, about everyone who, despite his solitude and depression, never lost the capacity to feel and to love.
- Beginning of shooting
- Nov 01, 2011