Brodsky Is Not a Poet

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 4, 2016

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Russia

Cast

Joseph Brodsky

Director

Ilya Belov

Writer

Anton Zhelnov,Nikolay Kartoziya

Producer

Mariya Koiro

Cinematography

Rafael Bulatov

Music

Dmitry Selipanov,Nikolay Kartoziya

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt6298708