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 to 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.
Original Title: Dovlatov
English Title: Dovlatov
Production companies: SAGa films, Metrafilms and First Channel (Russia)
Co-production companies: Message film (Poland), Art & Popcorn (Serbia)
Language: Russian
Duration: 126 min
Genre: Biography, Drama
Supported by: Serbian Film Center, Eurimages
Year of production: 2018
Director: Aleksey German Jr.
Producers: Dariusz Jablonski, Violetta Kaminska
Co Producers: Miroslav Mogorović, Isabella Wojcik
Cinematography by:
Lukasz Zal
Editor:
Daria Gladysheva
Sergey Ivanov
Production Designer:
Elena Okopnaya
Costume Designer:
Elena Okopnaya
Makeup Department:
Natalya Ratkevich
Sound Department:
Sergey Figner
Ivan Gusakov
Dmitriy Vasilev
Visual Effects by:
Andrey Chechetkin
Apollinary Zakharov
Milan Marić
Danila Kozlovsky
Helena Sujecka
Artur Beschastny
Elena Lyadova
Anton Shagin
Svetlana Khodchenkova
Piotr Gasowski
Eva Gerr
Hanna Sleszynska
Mina Landraw
Leonid Paranin
Awards:
Berlinale 2018, Germany – Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Achievement
Berlinale 2018, Germany – Morgenpost Readers Award
Fajr IFF 2018 (Iran) – International Competition – Best Director Award, Critics Choice Award
Laceno d’Oro 2018 (Italy), Premio alla carriera “Laceno d’oro” for Alexey German Jr
Festivals:
European Film Academy Award Nominee
Sofia IFF 2018, Bulgaria, Competition
Vilnius IFF 2018, Lithuania
Hong Kong IFF 2018
Istanbul FF 2018
LET’S CEE FF 2018, Austria – Competition
Jeonju IFF 2018 (Korea)
Neisse FF 2018 (Germany)
Film by the Sea 2018 (Netherlands)
Haifa IFF 2018
Film Fest Gent 2018
Geneva IFF 2018
Ljubljana IFF 2018
Goa IFF 2018
Jewish FF in Jerusalem 2018
Kerala IFF 2018
Panorama of European Cinema in Athens 2018