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IFF Message to Man > 2025 > In Between: St. Petersburg’s Film Culture of the 1990s > Concert for a Ra

Concert for a Ra

Information about the film

Genres: Feature, Full-length

Director: Oleg Kovalov

Operator: Evgeni Shermergor

Screenwriter: Timur Vaulin, Oleg Kovalov

Cast: Elena Savina, Fyodor Konovalov, Pyotr Zaychenko, Sergey Lavrentiev

Producer: Andrey Deryabin, Viktor Gaylyunas, Aleksandr Golutva

Producer company : Lenfilm

Year: 1995

Country: Russia

Duration: 1 h. 50 min.

Languages: Russian

Description

A rat dwells in a cage. The cage sits in a room, where a poet resides. The room lies within a vast communal apartment, housed in a sprawling building with countless windows. The building stands in a courtyard-well, beside a mustachioed yard keeper in his tarpaulin boots. The courtyard rests in the city, the city in the country, and beyond lies the year 1939. A collage film drawn from Daniil Kharms’ works, including The Old Woman, written as the Second World War began.

* Cottbus IFF Prize, KinoShock Special Jury Prize, Gatchina Festival Grand Prix, etc.

About the director:

Oleg Kovalov

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