Khrustalyov, My Car!

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Khrustalyov, My Car!
Directed by Aleksei German
Produced by Aleksandr Golutva
Armen Medvedev
Guy Séligmann
Written by Aleksei German
Joseph Brodsky
Svetlana Karmalita
Starring Yuriy Tsurilo
Music by Andrei Petrov
Cinematography Vladimir Ilyin
Editing by Irina Gorokhovskaya
Distributed by Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Release dates 20 May 1998
Running time 150 minutes
Country Russia
Language Russian

Khrustalyov, My Car! (Russian: Хрусталёв, машину!; translit. Khrustalyov, mashinu!) is a 1998 Russian drama film directed by Aleksei German based on a story by Joseph Brodsky, screenplay by Svetlana Karmalita. It was produced by Canal+, CNC, Goskino, Lenfilm and VGTRK.

Plot summary

Surgeon General Klensky (Yuri Tsurilo), is captured and sent to Gulag convicted for the Doctors Plot to kill Joseph Stalin.

Cast

  • Yuri Tsurilo as Gen. Klensky
  • Nina Ruslanova as Wife
  • Mikhail Dementyev as Son
  • Aleksandr Bashirov as Idiot
  • Jüri Järvet Jr. as Finnish reporter
  • Sergei Dyachkov

Awards

The film won 1999 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards as the Best Film; Aleksei German won Best Director for Khrustalyov, mashinu!

It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

References

  1. "Festival de Cannes: Khrustalyov, My Car!". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-09-30. 

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