Russian Symphony

Summary

Russian Symphony (Russian: Русская симфония Russkaya simfoniya) is a 1994 Russian psychological drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky and starring Viktor Mikhaylov. The narrative is set in a dark version of contemporary Russia where the world seems to be coming to an end through a flood. A man is desperate to do something good with his life before it ends, but is mostly met with suspicion.

Russian Symphony
Russian Symphony
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Directed byKonstantin Lopushansky
Written byKonstantin Lopushansky
Produced byAleksandr Golutva
StarringViktor Mikhaylov
Aleksandr Ilyin
Kira Kreylis-Petrova
Valery Garkalin
CinematographyNikolai Pokoptsev
Music byAndrey Sigle
Production
companies
Lenfilm
Orient Express
Release date
  • 1994 (1994)
Running time
108 min
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian

The film ties in thematically with Lopushansky's other apocalyptic films, Dead Man's Letters (1986), A Visitor to a Museum (1989) and The Ugly Swans (2006), and is the most overtly religious of them.[1]

It played in the Forum section of the 45th Berlin International Film Festival and received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.[2][3]

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References edit

  1. ^ Birzache, Alina G. (2016). The Holy Fool in European Cinema. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-65163-7.
  2. ^ "Russkaja simfinoija". Berlin International Film Festival. Retrieved 2016-05-30.
  3. ^ "Russian Symphony". FilmAffinity. Retrieved 2016-05-30.

External links edit

  • Russian Symphony at IMDb