Film

Brodsky Is Not a Poet

2016 · 1h 40m · Documentary

IMDb

7.1

Fellow poets, excited ladies, the love of his life, Marina Basmanova, two psychiatric hospitals, KGB interrogations, a People's Court, prison, exile, forced emigration. All of this was Brodsky's Leningrad. The biography, which was written for, in Akhmatova's words, "our red-head". On the fourth of June 1972, when the plane carrying Brodsky took off from Pulkovo airport, this biography ended. And a new life began that almost no one in his homeland is aware of. Russia, America, Italy, Sweden, Finland - the filmmakers have traced the journey of their hero, perhaps the most well-traveled of all Russian writers. The places, that became his biography. And the people, that defined his fate.

Joseph Brodsky

himself

• Ilya BelovDirector
• Anton ZhelnovScreenplay
• Nikolay KartoziyaScreenplay · Original Music Composer
• Mariya KoiroProducer
• Rafael BulatovDirector of Photography
• Dmitry SelipanovOriginal Music Composer

Release date

November 4, 2016

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Documentary