''Bury Me Behind the Baseboard'' (russian: Похорoните меня за плинтусом, Pokhoronite menya za plintusom) is a 2009 Russian

psychological drama Psychological drama or psychodrama is a sub-genre of drama that places emphasis on psychological elements. It often overlaps with other genres such as crime, fantasy, black comedy, and science fiction, and it is closely related with the psychologi ...

film directed by Sergey Snezhkin, based on the autobiographical story of the same name by Pavel Sanayev. The film is a participant in the competition program of the

Kinotavr Kinotavr (russian: Кинотавр), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival is an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasio ...

Plot

Eight-year-old Sasha Savelyev lives with his grandmother and actor-grandfather. The boy is not given to his mother. The grandmother takes care of her often ill grandson and brings him up with crazy love, which gradually turns into a real tyranny.

Cast

* Aleksandr Drobitko as Grandson * Svetlana Kryuchkova as Grandma *

Aleksei Petrenko Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (russian: Алексей Васильевич Петренко; 26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He played Grigori Rasputin in Elem Klimov's historical drama ''Agony' ...

as Granddad *

Maria Shukshina Maria Vasilievna Shukshina (russian: Мари́я Васи́льевна Шукшина́; born 27 May 1967) is a Russian actress. Her film credits include '' Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus'' (2010), ''Bury Me Behind the Baseboard'' (2009) and '' Am ...

as Mother * Konstantin Vorobyov as Tolik *

Valery Kukhareshin Valery Aleksandrovich Kukhareshin (russian: link=no, Валерий Александрович Кухаре́шин; born 7 December 1957) is a Soviet and Russian stage, film and dubbing actor. Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (1994), ...

as Aaron Moiseevich,

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Production

Actresses

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina Lidiya Nikolayevna Fedoseyeva-Shukshina (russian: Лидия Николаевна Федосеева-Шукшина; born 25 September 1938, in Leningrad) is a Russian actress and widow of writer, actor and director Vasily Shukshin. She is the mo ...

Elena Sanayeva Elena Vsevolodovna Sanayeva (russian: Еле́на Все́володовна Сана́ева; born 21 October 1942, Kuibyshev) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress and social activist. She is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1990).Н ...

and

Era Ziganshina Era Garafovna Ziganshina ( tt-Cyrl, Эра Гарәф кызы Җиһаншина, russian: Э́ра Гара́фовна Зига́ншина; born February 1, 1944) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, People's Artist of Russia (2005 ...

claimed the role of grandmother. Svetlana Kryuchkova claims that many of the film's scenes, which made it closer to the book, were cut at the behest of the producers.

Accolades

Winner of the 2009

Nika Award The Nika Award (sometimes styled NIKA Award) is the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, and seen as the national equivalent of the Oscars. History The award was established i ...

in the categories "Best Actress" (Svetlana Kryuchkova) and "Best Supporting Actress" (Maria Shukshina).

References

External links

* 2009 films 2000s psychological drama films Russian drama films Films about dysfunctional families 2009 drama films Films based on Russian novels Films based on autobiographical novels {{Russia-film-stub