Brodsky Is Not a Poet
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Fellow poets, excited ladies, the love of his life, Marina Basmanova, two psychiatric hospitals, KGB interrogations, a People's Court, prison, exile, forced emigration. All of this was Brodsky's Leningrad. The biography, which was written for, in Akhmatova's words, "our red-head". On the fourth of June 1972, when the plane carrying Brodsky took off from Pulkovo airport, this biography ended. And a new life began that almost no one in his homeland is aware of. Russia, America, Italy, Sweden, Finland - the filmmakers have traced the journey of their hero, perhaps the most well-traveled of all Russian writers. The places, that became his biography. And the people, that defined his fate.
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Ilya Belov Director · Nikolay Kartoziya Screenplay Anton Zhelnov Screenplay
Budget $35K · First release May 24, 2015 · Produced in Russia
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Russia
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Original title
Бродский не поэт
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Russian
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Russian
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Russia · May 24, 2015
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No release date listed for United States.
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November 4, 2016 · Premiere · Sputnik Russian Film Festival
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