''Room and a Half'' (

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: ''Полторы комнаты, или сентиментальное путешествие на родину'') is a 2009

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n biographical film. It won three

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, including Best Film, Best Director (Khrzhanovsky) and Best Screenplay. It also received the Best Film award in the East of the West section at the

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Plot

The film is a fictionalized account of writer

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

. Much of the action incorporates animation to create an ethereal feeling. Director Khrzhanovsky stated ''

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'' is a sequel to the ''Room and a Half''. A third sequel is planned that will unite all the films into a future trilogy.

Cast

Alisa Freindlich Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (russian: Алиса Бруновна Фрейндлих, born 8 December 1934 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1981). Since 1983, Freindlich has been a leading ac ...

as Mother *

Sergei Yursky Sergei Yurievich Yursky (russian: Серге́й Ю́рьевич Ю́рский, 16 March 1935 – 8 February 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and screenwriter. His best known film role is Ostap Bender in '' T ...

as Father * Grigoriy Dityatkovsky as Joseph Brodsky

References

External links

* 2009 films Biographical films about writers Russian biographical films {{Russia-film-stub