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A Room and a Half
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“...a magical, wildly creative fantasia on the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky…Inspired by a poet, Khrzhanovsky has created his own poetry…” –Variety
A Room and a Half / Poltory komnaty ili sentimentalnoe puteshestvie na rodinu
Andrey Khrzhanovsky, 2009, Russia, 130m
Former animator Andrey Khrzhanovsky combines scripted scenes, archival footage, several types of animation, and surrealist flights of fancy to create this stirring portrait of poet Joseph Brodsky and the postwar Soviet cultural scene. Exiled from his native Russia in 1972, the Nobel Prize-winning poet once claimed that if he were ever to return to the Motherland, he would do so anonymously. Stepping off from that premise, Khrzhanovsky and screenwriter Yuri Arabov have created an ironic fairy tale of a trip for Brodsky. The journey covers not only geography but time as well, as the audience is transported back to the Russia of the Fifties and Sixties to the artistic explosion that erupted in the wake of de-Stalinization and the Thaw. A Room and a Half is both a moving tribute to one of the 20th century’s major poets as well as a fascinating look at cultural life under the watchful eyes of an authoritarian regime.
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