YUMORIST
the HUMORIST
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When he is forced to perform at the birthday party of an elite politician’s wife, he blows his top and takes revenge. Set in the 1980s, the film shows a country in which power and decadence were not far apart and the collapse of the USSR was imminent. © JFBB With a keen sense for the uncomfortable position of a privileged person who is flattered by the powerful and yet soon finds himself under the spotlight if he refuses to play the harmless fool, director and screenwriter Michael Idov narrates a multi-faceted portrait of an artist. Despite the surreal scenes this is anything but a comedy: instead Boris is doomed to telling cheap jokes for a mass audience and giving private shows for the nomenklatura. His fame offers no protection: if anything, he's more vulnerable as a result and, in the end, risks his life. Michael Idov, who also wrote the screenplay for Kirill Serebrennikov's LETO (FFC 2018), creates in THE HUMORIST a tragic clown whose story draws inspiration from real-life figures. BB
DCP | Farbe / colour
Michael Idov
Alexander Surkala
Michal Deliopulos
Aivars Žukovskis
David Mason
Aleksey Agranovich, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Alisa Khazanova, Pavel Ilyin, Artem Volobuev
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Mikhail Idov - born in 1976 in Riga, Latvia. In 1992 he emigrated to the USA. Before his directing debut with THE HUMORIST he wrote novels and screenplays, among others for Kirill Serebrennikov's film LETO (FFC 2018), the Russian box office hit SOULLESS and the acclaimed Russian TV series LONDONGRAD. He has lived in Berlin for several years.
