Brodsky Is Not a Poet
2016, Russian. Directed by Ilya Belov.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 4 November 2016
- Original title
- Бродский не поэт
- Country
- Russia
- Written by
- Nikolay Kartoziya, Anton Zhelnov
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Brodsky Is Not a Poet (2016) was directed by Ilya Belov and stars Joseph Brodsky.