Summary
Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a 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 artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
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Critics vs audiences
Critics like it more than audiences (+12)
Critics 74Audiences 62GoodWatch 68
Tomatometer80%
Metascore68
Letterboxd · 3 K ratings3.3/5
User score6.5
IMDb6.4
Audience score54%
Running time
2 h 6 min
Longer than most dramas, +17 min on the typical 109
typical 109126Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 20 countries, rent or buy in 2 more
+10Released
2018
February 27, 2018
8 years ago
Genre
DramaLanguage
Russian
Original language
Also spoken
FinnishSpanishMade in
Poland
Russia
Serbia
and 20 more24 people
- Milan MarićSergei Dovlatov
- Danila KozlovskyDavid
- Helena SujeckaElena Dovlatova
- Eva GerrKatya Dovlatova
- Arthur BeschastnyIosif Brodskiy
- Anton ShaginAnton Kuznetsov
- Svetlana KhodchenkovaActress - Dovlatov's friend
- Elena LyadovaYoung editor
Igor MityushkinSholom Shvarts - artist
Piotr GąsowskiSemyon Aleksandrovich
Tamara OganesyanNora Dovlatova - Sergei Dovlatov mother
Anna EkaterininskayaDeputy director of the plant
Sergei TolstovFactory Newspaper Editor
Hanna ŚleszyńskaEditor of Literary Magazine
Maria JärvenhelmiFinnish tourist
Grigoriy DantsigerDovlatov's friend
Alexandra CherkasovaGuest at Semen's dacha
Igor KorovinDovlatov friend- AGArevik GevorgyanArmenian girl
Aleksander AnriaFinnish writer
Grigoriy PerelPushkin
Pavel SergienkoDostoevsky
Alina KorolNatasha Rostova
Aleksandr KhachatryanLeonid Brezhnev
Directing · 5
- Aleksei German Jr. Director, Screenplay
- Evgeniya Kirpichnikova Second Assistant Director
- Natalya Kalashnikova Co-Director
- Maksim Elagin Co-Director
- Vladislav Voloshinov Assistant Director
Writing · 1
- Yuliya Tupikina Screenplay
Production · 17
- Alexey Lvovich Executive Producer
- Olga Yuntunen Executive Producer
- Dariusz Jabłoński Producer
- Miroslav Mogorović Producer
- Izabela Wójcik Producer
- Violetta Kamińska Producer
Camera · 2
- Łukasz Żal Director of Photography
- Filipp Martynov Second Unit Director of Photography
Editing · 2
- Sergey Ivanov Lead Editor
- Darya Gladysheva Lead Editor
Sound · 2
- Aleksandr Valentsov Boom Operator
- Ivan Gusakov Sound Director
Art · 1
- Elena Okopnaya Production Design, Costume Design
Other crew · 6
- Vladimir Sevostyanikhin Stunt Coordinator
- Nikita Mikhalkov Thanks
- Sergey Dovlatov In Memory Of
- Elena Dovlatova Thanks
- Ekaterina Dovlatova Thanks
- Georgiy Poltavchenko Thanks
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