The year is 1949. One of the last outbreaks of Stalinist terror was a bloody buffoonery under the auspices of the fight against cosmopolitanism. In the Writers' House near Moscow, where a young writer finishes her story about her husband's arrest and death, there is a painful atmosphere of fear, suspicion, suspiciousness and foreboding that can drive you crazy...
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Vladimir Ivashov
Known for
Ballad of a Soldier
The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers
Irina Brazgovka
Known for
The Kitchen
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Known for
The Twelve Chairs
The Red Snowball Tree
Aleksandr Kalyagin
Known for
Tale of Tales
Hello, I'm Your Aunt!
Zinoviy Gerdt
Known for
Adventures of Captain Vrungel
Mother For Baby Mammoth
Boris Klyuev
Known for
D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
Zoya Buryak
Known for
The Cold Summer of 1953
We Are from the Future
Andrey Zaykov
Also in
Nonsense. A Story About Nothing
Pioneer Mary Pickford
Khasan Bidzhiyev
Also in
Cold
Margarita Shubina
Known for
Leviathan
Aleksandr Muratov Director · Lydia Chukovskaya Writer Jacques Baynac Author
First release May 1, 1992 · Produced in Russia, France · Production La Sept Cinéma
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Studio Troitskij Most
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La Sept Cinéma
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Russia · France
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Original title
Рукопись
Original language
Russian
Release dates
Russia · May 1, 1992
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No release date listed for United States.
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