Aleksandr VELEDINSKY
Александр ВЕЛЕДИНСКИЙ
Aleksandr VELEDINSKI
Russia, 2013, 120mn 
Colour, fiction
Geograf globus propil
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Географ глобус пропил

 

 The Geographer Has Drunk Away The Globe

 Le Géographe a bu son globe

 
Directed by : Aleksandr VELEDINSKY (Александр ВЕЛЕДИНСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Rauf KUBAYEV (Рауф КУБАЕВ), Valery TODOROVSKY (Валерий ТОДОРОВСКИЙ), Aleksandr VELEDINSKY (Александр ВЕЛЕДИНСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Konstantin KHABENSKY (Константин ХАБЕНСКИЙ) ...Viktor
Yelena LIADOVA (Елена ЛЯДОВА) ...Nadya
Aleksandr ROBAK (Александр РОБАК) ...Budkin
Yevgeniya BRIK (Евгения БРИК) ...Kira
Maksim LAGASHKIN (Максим ЛАГАШКИН)
Anna UKOLOVA (Анна УКОЛОВА)
 
Cinematography : Vladimir SOSHALSKY (Владимир СОШАЛЬСКИЙ)
Production design : Vladimir GUDILIN (Владимир ГУДИЛИН), Sergey GUDILIN (Сергей ГУДИЛИН)
Music : Aleksey ZUBAREV (Алексей ЗУБАРЕВ)
Produced by : Vadim GORIAINOV (Вадим ГОРЯИНОВ), Leonid LEBEDEV (Леонид ЛЕБЕДЕВ), Valery TODOROVSKY (Валерий ТОДОРОВСКИЙ)
Companies : Marmot-Film
Film revenue in Russia : 4.257638 million dollars
Spectators : 573 200
Release Date in Russia : 07/11/2013
 

Awards :
Best film Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2014
Best directing Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2014
Best actor Konstantin KHABENSKY , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2014
Best actress Yelena LIADOVA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2014
First prize Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
Best actor Konstantin KHABENSKY , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
Best music Aleksey ZUBAREV , Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
Prize of Film Distributor's Jury Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
First prize Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2013
Best actress Yelena LIADOVA , Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2013

Plot synopsis
The young biologist Viktor Sluzhkin works as a geography teacher in an ordinary school in Perm for need of money. He struggles at first, then makes friends with the pupils, clashes with the head of studies, and takes the finalists on a trip along the river. He also drinks wine with his friends, and tries to get along with his wife, and takes his daughter to the kindergarten. He simply lives... But Alexei Ivanov wrote this simple private story so desperately and so gently, with the resonant phrase “the geographer has drunk away the globe”, as happens only with remarkable books when they become a story about everyone: everyone who at least once got muddled and lost in his life; everyone who sometimes felt as lonely as Viktor Sluzhkin; and everyone who – despite loneliness and melancholy – never lost the ability to feel and to love.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2018
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2017
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2016
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2014
- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2014
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2014
- Göteborg International Film Festival, Göteborg (Sweden), 2014
- Seattle International Film Festival : SIFF, Seattle (USA), 2014
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2013
- Helsinki International Film Festival, Helsinki (Finland), 2013
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2013
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2013
- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2013
- Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik (Iceland ), 2013
- Haifa International Film Festival, Haifa (Israel), 2013
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2013
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2013
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2013
- Festival des Films de Russie et d'Ailleurs, Geneva - Lausanne (Switzerland), 2013
- Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa (Ukraine), 2013
- Middle East International Film Festival : MEIFF, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), 2013
- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2013