The Role
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In revolutionary Russia, a brilliant actor takes on the greatest role of his life: that of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt... even when the play of the life he writes heads towards a tragic finale.
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Maria Järvenhelmi
Амалия
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Maksim Sukhanov
Николай Евлахов / Плотников
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Leonid Mozgovoy
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Yuriy Itskov
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Boris Kamorzin
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Alyona Sidorova
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Anastasiya Shevelyova
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Dmitriy Sutyrin
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Sergey Yurevich
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Artyom Bordovskiy
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Denis Moiseev
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Lev Eliseev
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Konstantin Lopushansky Director · Pavel Finn Writer Sergey Obukhov Editor
Budget $2.5M · First release February 10, 2013 · Produced in Belarus, Finland, Germany, Russia
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Budget
$2,480,000
Production
Proline Film
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The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus
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Eurimages
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Finnish Film Foundation
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Bufo
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Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
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Belarusfilm
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Kinostudiya Golos
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Lenfilm
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Belarus Republic Ministry of Culture
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Oy Bufo Ab
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Studio "Golos" (Lenfilm)
Production
Belarus · Finland · Germany · Russia
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Languages
Original title
Роль
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · February 10, 2013
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Estonia
November 21, 2013 · Premiere · Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Russia
June 25, 2013 · Premiere · Moscow International Film Festival
September 30, 2013 · Premiere
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