'A Room and a Half'
'A Room and a Half'
'A Room and a Half'
Yume Pictures and Academia Rossica are delighted to invite you to a special screening of the film
'A Room and a Half'
at 8pm on 10 May at Cine Lumière, South Kensington, London, SW7 2DT
followed by Q&A with director Andrey Khrzhanovsky and actress Alisa Freyndlikh
About the film:
When asked in an interview whether he ever intended to return to his Motherland, Joseph Brodsky replied: "Such a journey could only take place anonymously..."
The creators of this film imagined that the journey in question was undertaken after all, selecting the genre of an ironic fairytale. The poet sails to the country of his childhood, and with him we traverse not only geographical expanses, but travel through time as well; stringing together a number of facts from the Nobel Prize Laureate's biography, we return to the USSR of the 50s and early 60s, soaking up the atmosphere of the "European" city of Petersburg, to this day Russia's cultural center.
Along with live-action sequences, the film features animation, as well as documentary footage concerning Brodsky and his milieu.
Winner of numerous awards including:
Best film at East of the West Competition Karlovy Vary IFF 2009;
Grand Prix IFF “Zerkalo” named after A.Tarkovsky 2009;
Prize of the Guild of Russian film critics of the IFF “Zerkalo” named after A.Tarkovsky 2009;
The Grand Prize of the 17th Festival of Russian Cinema “Window into Europe”.
“An enchanting elegiac memory piece”. Gavin Smith, Film Comment
“Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s semi-fictionalized biography of Nobel prize-winning poet Josef Brodsky is a lively, dense and richly imaginative portrait not only of a great writer but also of the post Second World War cultural world of the Soviet Union” Dan Fainaru, Screen International
“Unmistakably the work of a mature artist, and it’s the helmer’s absolute mastery of the different formats that makes his work so joyous.” Jay Weissberg, Variety
Distributor in the UK: Yume Pictures
