The Geographer Drank His Globe Away / Географ глобус пропил
Sunday, 10 November, 8 pm
Thursday, 14 November, 6 pm
Russia, 2013, 120 min. Drama
Director Alexander Veledinsky
Producer Vadim Goriainov, Leonid Lebedev, Valery Todorovsky, Maksim Koroptsov, Elena Kozhanova, Dmitry Domnin
Scryptwriter Alexander Veledinsky
Camera Vladimir Bashta
Production design Vladimir Gudilin, Sergei Gudilin
Costume design Liudmila Gaintseva
Composer Aleksey Zubarev
Editing Tatiana Prilenskaya, Aleksandr Veledinsky
Starring Konstantin Khabensky, Elena Liadova, Aleksandr Robak, Evgeniia Brik, Anna Ukolova, Evgenia Kregzhde
Awards
XXIV Open Russian Film Festival 'Kinotavr' in Sochi:
Grand Prize
Prize for Best Male Actor – Konstantin Khabensky
M. Tariverdieva Prize for Best Original Score – Aleksei P. Zubarev
Distributors' Prize
'The Hollywood Reporter' Special Prize
IV International Odessa Film Festival
Grand Prix for Best Film (audience vote)
International Jury Best Film Award
Synopsis
Based on Aleksei Ivanov’s novel of the same time, The Geographer Drank His Globe Away follows a biologist called Victor Sluzhkin, who, due to a lack of money, has had to take a job in a school as a geography teacher. There are many problems in his life: no money, quarrels with his wife, affairs on the side, conflicts with the students and the assistant headmaster in his new job, and a feeling of constant loneliness. However, life must go on: he continues to take his daughter to the nursery, organizes a trip on the river with the ninth-graders, and falls in love with one of his students ...
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