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The Geographer Drank His Globe Away

Aleksandr Veledinsky
Russia, 2013, 120 Min
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The biologist Viktor Sluzhkin is unemployed. Desperate to find any job in the provincial town of Perm, where he lives with his wife and daughter, he accepts a post as geography teacher in a school. Working with teenagers is a challenging task, but he manages to make friends with the pupils, and win their trust and genuine respect. However, Sluzhkin’s professional and family life suffers from his regular drinking bouts. Although Sluzhkin makes more than one mistake in life, he is a caring man and therefore a loveable character, even if others might consider him a failure. In a sense, he is a man unable to adapt to life in the post-Soviet space, who will forever remain a “superfluous man”, or someone whom the new Russia might condemn for all his shortcomings.
Based on a novel by the popular Russian writer Alexei Ivanov, this film depicts a new type in Russian culture, a man who will characterise the epoch as once upon a time did the “superfluous man” of Russia’s classical literature in the 19th century. This type tries, and ultimately fails, to find his place in society without ever losing his energy for life. Produced by Valery Todorovsky and directed by Alexander Veledinsky, the film deservedly took the main prize in Sochi at Kinotavr 2013, one of the largest and most important Russian film festivals.

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Aleksandr Veledinsky, Rauf Kubayev, Valery Todorovsky
Kamera
Vladimir Bashta
Ton
Artem Bad, Maxim Romasevich
Schnitt
Tatyana Prilenskaya, Alexandr Veledinsky
Ausstattung
Vladimir Gudilin, Sergey Gudilin
Musik
Alexey Zubarev
Darsteller
Konstantin Khabensky, Elena Lyadova, Alexandr Robak, Evgeniya Brik, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Anfisa Chernykh, Anna Ukolova, Maxim Lagashkin, Agrippina Steklova, Andrey Prytkov, Ilya Ilyinykh
Produzent
Vadim Goryainov, Leonid Lebedev, Valery Todorovsky
Produktion
Marmot Film
Kontakt
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Aleksandr Veledinsky

Aleksandr Veledinsky - – born 1959 in Nizhni Novgorod, USSR. Studied screenplay and film directing, (workshop of Alexander Proshkin and Valery Priyomykhov). In 2001, his short TY DA YA, DA MY S TOBOY (JUST THE TWO OF US) participated in Un Certain Regard at the IFF in Cannes. For the screenplay of ZHIVOY (LIVING) he and his co-writer Igor Porublev won the NIKA in 2006.

Movies
TY DA YA, DA MY S TOBOY (2001, short)
ZAKON (2002, TV)
RUSKOE (2004)
ZHIVOY (2006)