The film tells about the outstanding actor Georgy Zhzhenov, his life in Leningrad, the beginning of his film career, arrest, investigation, detention in Shpalerki and Kresty prisons. The protagonist, as it were, leads a tour of the historical places of his biography. The audience together with him visit the very cell where Zhzhenov spent two and a half years, his communal apartment. Georgy Stepanovich meets people with whom he once knew, long-forgotten names, surnames, lines of poetry come to mind.
Film crew
- Director
- Sergei Miroshnichenko
- Screen writer
- Alexey Pischulin
- Operator
- Vyacheslav Sachkov
- Producer
- Natalia Gostyushina, Andrey Drobyshev, Sergey Miroshnichenko
- Composer
- Andrey Doinikov
MOVIE ABOUT
- Theme
- History, Human rights, Politics, Theater, Cinematograph, Biography, Art and culture
- Country
- Russia
- Film studio
- Остров
- Genre
- Drama, Essay, Archive footage
- Country of action
- USSR
- Period of action
- 1925-1940, 1941-1945, 1946-1953, 2003
- Festivals
- Lavr doc 2003
- Financing
- Television
- TVPG
- 16+
- Languages
- Russian