Room and a Half ( Poltory komnaty ili sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na rodinu ) ( Póltora pokoju )

Room and a Half (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Poltory komnaty ili sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na rodinu
Alternate Title: Póltora pokoju
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Russian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
130 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 2009 and produced in:
Russia ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Andrey Khrzhanovskiy

Written By:
Yuri Arabov
Andrey Khrzhanovskiy

Actors:
Aleksandr Bargman ..... Joseph Brodsky
Sergey Barkovskiy ..... Mother
Aleksei Devotchenko ..... Father
Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy
Sergey Dreiden
Alisa Frejndlikh
Svetlana Kryuchkova
Aleksandr Lenkov
Nikolay Marosanov
Vladimir Rozygraev
Artyom Smola
Sergei Yursky

Synopsis:

A Room and a Half is a unique journey to the earlier life of Nobel Prize winning Russian poet Joseph Brodsky. A perfect blend of different styles - fiction, animation and historical footage - creates an unforgettable atmosphere, smoothly intertwined with one another in a highly original manner. Brodsky's reminiscences begin with his father (Sergei Yursky) and mother (the great Alisa Freyndlikh) creating a wonderland of familial warmth within their apartment. As a boy, Brodsky sees the world through the confident prism of a loving family. As a college student, Brodsky becomes political, a stance he maintains through his writings until he s exiled in 1972. The poet (the superb Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy) sails to the country of his childhood, and with him we traverse not only geographical expanses, but travel through time as well. Inspired by a poet, Khrzhanovskiy has created his own poetry.

Late in 'A Room and a Half,' a rich, heady fictionalized biography of the exiled Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, the middle-aged Brodsky ruefully reflects in a voice-over about how children are in a desperate hurry to leave the nest. 'And one day a man realizes that the nest is gone,' muses the poet (Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy, the oldest of three actors playing Brodsky). 'The people who gave him life are dead. He realizes that the only real thing in his life was that nest.' In the movie, unlike real life, Brodsky who died in New York in 1996 at 55 magically gets to return to that nest in his final days. Sailing triumphantly up the Neva River, he visits the one-and-a-half-room apartment in St. Petersburg that holds his most cherished memories, and inhales his past.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 31 October, 2010.

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