Movie

2010 Documentary
1h 17min
Original title | Moi otetz Evgeni |
Original lang. | Russian |
Country | USA/Ukraine |
From 1961 through 1979 Evgeni Zagdansky was editor-in-chief of the Kiev Popular Science Film Studio.
From 1981 through 1992 his son, a film director, Andrei worked in the same film studio.
In 1992 Andrei along with his family left Kiev and settled in New York.
Evgeni stayed behind. Evgeni's letters to Andrei and Andrei's narrative of father's life intertwine in the multi-layered fabric of the film creating a portrait of the man, his epoch and a self-portrait of the auteur.
Directed by | Andrei Zagdansky |
Written by | Andrei Zagdansky |
Featuring
Yves Montand
Simone Signoret
Leonid Brezhnev
Fidel Castro
Simone de Beauvoir
Gerald Ford
Yuri Gagarin
Aleksandr Gelman
Mikhail Gorbachev
Erich Honecker
Nikita Khrushchev
Golda Meir
Solomon Mikhoels
Richard Nixon
Rudolf Nureyev
Sergei Parajanov
Francis Gary Powers
Andrei Sakharov
Jean-Paul Sartre
Natalya Uzhviy
Alexei Zagdansky
Andrei Zagdansky
Tamara Zagdansky
Yevgeni Zagdansky
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