The Stringer

Overview

Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1998

Original language

English

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

United Kingdom

Production

BBC,British Screen,BBC Television Centre,Pepper Pictures

Cast

Anna Yanovskaya,Aleksei Shevchenkov,Valeriy Ivakov,Sergei Bodrov Jr.,Pavel Vinnik,Anna Kamenkova,Denis Karasyov,Anna Friel,Lyubov Sokolova,Vladimir Ilinand 8 more

Director

Paweł Pawlikowski

Writer

Paweł Pawlikowski,Gennadiy Ostrovskiy

Producer

George Faber,Fiona Morham,David M. Thompson,Charles Pattinson,Waldemar Król

Cinematography

Witold Stok

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0120229