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    My Father Evgeni

    Movie

    Poster of the movie My Father Evgeni
    2010     Documentary    
    1h 17min
    Original titleMoi otetz Evgeni
    Original lang.Russian
    CountryUSA/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 byAndrei Zagdansky
    Written byAndrei 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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