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Dovlatov (2018)
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Original name: Довлатов
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia, Poland, Serbia
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Dovlatov charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky while watching his artist friends get crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, visually appealing, art house, beautiful
Plot:
writer's life, politics, freedom, friends, life is a bitch, society, loneliness, book, introspection, drinking alcohol, social realism, drinking, social outcast, biopic, artist, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, black market, post punk, male friendship, based on real people, writers, friendship between men, soviet
Time:
70s, year 1971
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 128 min.
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
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friendship, betrayal, politics, drug abuse, addiction, prodigy, lifestyle, writer's life, tragic hero, rise and fall, tragic love, society ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The story of what happened to Neal Cassady after Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" came out. Deals primarily with Neal's relationship to his fictional alter-ego, Dean Moriarty.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Finland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 127 min.
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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887
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: Soviet Union
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Story:
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Story:
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