Paper Soldier

Bumažnyj soldat

Russia

2008

118 Min

Color

2.35:1

Russian

Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Aleksei German Ml., Vladimir Arkusha, Julia Glezarova

DP Maksim Drozdov, Alisher Khamidkhodjaev

CAST Chulpan Khamatova, Merab Ninidze, Anastasiya Sheveleva

MUSIC Fedor Sofronov

Venice (Competition): Best Director, Best Cinematography, Rotterdam (Spectrum), Karlovy Vary (East of the West), Edinburgh, Stockholm (Spotlight)

Synopsis

Daniel (Merab Ninidze) is an idealistic medic assigned to care for the health of the first Soviet cosmonaut troop. His concerns over the safety and morality of the project mesh with doubts about his own personal choices, as he enters a troubled extra-marital affair with the lovely Vera (Anastasiya Sheveleva). Eloquent, compelling and beautifully shot, this is a thoroughly absorbing work from the director of The Last Train (EIFF 2004). —Edinburgh International Film Festival

Director

Aleksei German Ml.

Aleksei German Jr. was born in 1976 in a cinematic family: his father, Aleksei German, is one of the most renowned Russian film directors and his mother is a screenwriter. German-Jr. studied at the St-Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Art (SPGATI). In 1996 he was accepted into the Film Directing Department at the State Institute for Filmmaking (VGIK) in Moscow, where he worked in the workshops of Sergei Solov’ev and Valerii Rubinchik. He graduated VGIK in 2001 and his diploma film, Little Fools, was screened at several major film festivals. German’s three feature films won multiple awards at Russian and international film festivals, including the Amnesty International Award for The Last Train at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. —rusfilm.pitt.edu

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daniel murtagh

1Apr11

IT'S A MASTERPIECE, DOO IT

Clayton

7Aug11

its true

Max Karpovets

7Jun10

One of the most touching film by Aleksei German Ml.!

Josh

1Mar10

Please make this available! I'm dying to see it!

Bruno Teixidor

26Nov09

What a serendipity. Reminds me a lot in some things the project i'm worknig on: "The Cosmonaut" ( www.thecosmonaut.org ) We bought the DVD in Russia, but sadly no english subs :S I'm dying to have the chance of watching... and understand it!