Avdotya SMIRNOVA
Авдотья СМИРНОВА
Avdotia SMIRNOVA
Russia, 2011, full length film 
Colour, fiction
Two days
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Два дня

 

 Deux jours

 Dva dnya

Other titles : Музей
 
Directed by : Avdotya SMIRNOVA (Авдотья СМИРНОВА)
Writing credits : Avdotya SMIRNOVA (Авдотья СМИРНОВА)
 
Cast
Fyodor BONDARCHUK (Федор БОНДАРЧУК) ...Pyotr Drozdov
Kseniya RAPPOPORT (Ксения РАППОПОРТ) ...Masha
Irina ROZANOVA (Ирина РОЗАНОВА)
Konstantin SHELESTUN (Константин ШЕЛЕСТУН)
Andrey SMIRNOV (Андрей СМИРНОВ) ...minister
 
Cinematography : Maksim OSADCHY (Максим ОСАДЧИЙ)
Production design : Yekaterina ZALETAEVA (Екатерина ЗАЛЕТАЕВА)
Music : Pyotr KLIMOV (Пётр КЛИМОВ), Aleksey STEBLYOV (Алексей СТЕБЛЕВ)
Produced by : Fyodor BONDARCHUK (Федор БОНДАРЧУК), Ruben DISHDISHIAN (Рубен ДИШДИШЯН), Dmitry RUDOVSKY (Дмитрий РУДОВСКИЙ)
Production : Central Partnership, Art Pictures Studio
Film revenue in Russia : 0.616 million dollars
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb

Awards :
Best actress Kseniya RAPPOPORT , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2012
Best actor Fyodor BONDARCHUK , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2012
Audience Award "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2011
Audience Award Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2011

Plot synopsis
In the film, Drozdov comes to the provincial museum of an obscure Russian literary genius with an order to seize the museum’s land. There, he meets young literary expert Masha, who works as the museum’s Deputy Director. The attraction between the two is so strong that Drozdov decides to alter the entire course of his life.
Source : Action 61th Berlinale Special Edition
 

Commentaries and bibliography
RUSSIA BEYOND Les cinq meilleurs films russes à regarder sur Netflix [Dans quels pays?], Alexandre NETCHAÏEV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
Avdot’ia Smirnova : Two Days (2 dnia, 2011), Stephen NORRIS, kinokultura.com, 2012
Идеологическая комедия Два дня, режиссер Авдотья Смирнова, Anjelika ARTYUKH, Искусство кино, 8, 2011
Номенклатурный ромком. Два дня, Andrey PLAKHOV, seance.ru, 2011
La Russie de 2011 au miroir de son cinéma, Sylvie BRAIBANT, TV5, 2011
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2015
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2012
- Days of Russian cinema in Limoges, Limoges (France), 2012
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2012
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2012
- Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2011
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2011
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2011
- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2011
- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2011
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011
- Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2011
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2011
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2011
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Independant European Film Festival VOICES, Vologda (Russia), 2011
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2011
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2011
- Odessa International Film Festival, Odessa (Ukraine), 2011

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