Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Milan Marić as Sergei Dovlatov
- Danila Kozlovsky as David
- Helena Sujecka as Elena Dovlatova
- Eva Gerr as Katya Dovlatova
- Arthur Beschastny as Iosif Brodskiy
- Anton Shagin as Anton Kuznetsov
- Svetlana Khodchenkova as Actress - Dovlatov's friend
- Elena Lyadova as Young editor
- Igor Mityushkin as Sholom Shvarts - artist
- Piotr Gąsowski as Semyon Aleksandrovich
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