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A Room and a Half

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Semi-factual autobiography of Russian Joseph Brodsky who left the USSR in 1972. The film imagines him returning to St. Petersburg and contrasting it with the memories of wartime Leningrad.

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Derek Malcolm London Evening Standard 05/13/2010
4/5
[An] extraordinary kaleidoscope of a film... Go to Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian 05/07/2010
4/5
Part of the film's message is that we are all exiles -- banished, Housman-like, from the country of our past. Go to Full Review Jason Wood Little White Lies 05/06/2010
4/4
Room and a Half offers an inventive and intimate portrait both of a great artist and of the post-Second World War cultural world of the Soviet Union. Go to Full Review Simon Jablonski Film4 05/13/2010
5/5
A Room And A Half is a cinematic masterpiece that brings fresh ideas from a wise old head to the big screen. Go to Full Review David Parkinson Radio Times 05/06/2010
4/5
This is a beautifully produced, historically astute and hugely affecting movie. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Andrey Khrzhanovskiy

Director

Alisa Freyndlikh

Mother

Sergey Yurskiy

Father

Grigoriy Dityatkovskiy

Joseph Brodsky

Artyom Smola

Actor

Zhenya Oganjanyan

Actor

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Movie Info

Synopsis Semi-factual autobiography of Russian Joseph Brodsky who left the USSR in 1972. The film imagines him returning to St. Petersburg and contrasting it with the memories of wartime Leningrad.
Director
Andrey Khrzhanovskiy
Producer
Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, Artem Vasilyev
Screenwriter
Andrey Khrzhanovskiy, Yuriy Arabov
Genre
Biography, Drama, Foreign
Original Language
Russian
Runtime
2h 10m