Dovlatov

Name: Dovlatov
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: October 25, 2018
Duration: 126 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Anton Shagin, Artur Beschastny, Danila Kozlovsky, Eva Gerr, Hanna Sleszynska

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Netflix | Release Date: October 25, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Anton Shagin, Artur Beschastny, Danila Kozlovsky, Eva Gerr, Hanna Sleszynska, Helena Sujecka, Milan Maric, Piotr Gasowski, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Yelena Lyadova

Summary: Dovlatov charts six days in the life of 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 get crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

Director: Aleksey German

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 126 min

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Gary Goldstein

Oct 24, 2018

A dreamy, compelling, often wry look at a writer. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

This slow-burning, pensively drifting evocation of the times of Sergei Dovlatov is not a conventional portrait, still less a biopic, but an imaginatively realistic recreation of a bygone era of Russian culture. Read full review

Deborah Young

[A] forceful presentation of an ever-timely topic. Read full review

The Film Stage C.J. Prince

Mar 6, 2018

German uses this six-day window to evoke a specific time and place, and through that specificity, he creates a satisfying ode to the struggle and resilience of creating art. Read full review

Keith Watson

Oct 24, 2018

According tot he film, truly courageous artists aren't necessarily the ones who tackle the state head-on, but rather the ones who stay true to themselves even when no one likes what they have to say. Read full review

Patrick Gamble

No doubt many will find German’s approach pretentious and overly repetitive. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Tomris Laffly

Oct 26, 2018

With its script (co-written by German and Yulia Tupikina) that lacks the traditional structure of a three-part act, Dovlatov managed to evoke in me an overall feeling of internment. Along with it crept in a gloomy mood, gradually formed through the collective frustrations of the time’s hampered dwellers. Read full review

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eva3si0n

Jun 9, 2020

Dovlatov is a good biographical film about a famous Russian writer. The majority of biographical films are divided into 2 types: either the film tells the whole life of a person or in detail about some period of life. It is type 2 that I consider preferable, as in 2-2.5 hours of conditionalDovlatov is a good biographical film about a famous Russian writer. The majority of biographical films are divided into 2 types: either the film tells the whole life of a person or in detail about some period of life. It is type 2 that I consider preferable, as in 2-2.5 hours of conditional timing it is difficult to lay down a whole life of a person. Dovlatov is just such a film, the action of the film unfolds in just a couple of days 1971. Transfer of an era, life and life of Leningrad of the 1970th years simply 10/10. One of the best films about the period of Brezhnev stagnation of society. Just a good film, in which there are only dialogues and internal conflict of the writer, who alone opposes the state structure.… Expand

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