Film

The Role

2013 · 2h 12m · Drama

IMDb

7.0

The Role is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life - the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt… even when the play of the life he is writing heads towards a tragic finale. Based on true incidents in the lives of Russia’s symbolists, this gripping film explores how far one man will go for the role of a lifetime.

Maria Järvenhelmi

Амалия

Maksim Sukhanov

Николай Евлахов / Плотников

Leonid Mozgovoy

Ухов

Yuriy Itskov

Одинцов

Boris Kamorzin

Григорий

Alyona Sidorova

Anastasiya Shevelyova

Dmitriy Sutyrin

Sergey Yurevich

Artyom Bordovskiy

Denis Moiseev

Lev Eliseev

Yakov Shamshin

Tatyana Mishina

Igor Golovin

Dmitriy Kochkin

• Konstantin LopushanskyWriter · Director
• Pavel FinnWriter
• Andrey SigleProducer
• Alexey KozlovExecutive Producer
• Sergey ObukhovEditor

Release date

February 10, 2013

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

2h 12m

Rated

16+

Budget

$2,480,000

Genres

Drama