Overview
In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that here people live very differently than in the world familiar to him. By chance, he witnesses someone else's love drama - intellectual Sasha and dissident Andrei who is leaving for America.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the Golden Bear (1987) and the FIPRESCI Prize at Berlinale (1987)
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Setting
Set in the Soviet Union
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Music
Music by Vadim Bibergan
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Leonid Kalashnikov
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Gleb PanfilovWriter
- Aleksandr ChervinskyWriter
- Original title
- Тема
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 9, 1979
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
Production
Cast
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