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Vadim Abdrashitov Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (russian: Вадим Юсупович Абдрашитов, tt-Cyrl, Вадим Йосыф улы Габдерәшитов) is one of Russian cinema's most notable independent director (film), directors. He is inter ...

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Aleksandr Mindadze Aleksandr Anatolevich Mindadze (; born 28 April 1949 in Moscow) is a Russian scriptwriter and director. He has won many of the most important Russian and Soviet film awards.Nick Holdsworth. Controversial War Film Wins Russia's NIKA Prize' at The ...

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Mosfilm Mosfilm (russian: Мосфильм, ''Mosfil’m'' ) is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output incl ...

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Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

, language = Russian , budget = ''Time of a Dancer'' (russian: Время танцора, Vremya tantsora), also translated as ''Dancer's Time'', is a 1997 Russian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

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Plot

They returned from the war. On the one hand, they won, and on the other, they lost, because they forgot how to live in peace. But the war did not destroy the most important thing in them: the will to live.

Cast

* Andrey Egorov as Andrei Podobed * Yuri Stepanov as Valeriy Belosheikin *

Sergey Garmash Sergei Leonidovich Garmash (russian: Серге́й Леони́дович Гарма́ш; born 1 September 1958) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He is a People's Artist of Russia. In 2013 he was a member of the jury at the 35th Mosc ...

as Fiedel *

Zurab Kipshidze Zurab Kipshidze ( ka, ზურაბ ყიფშიძე; 10 Aug 1953) is a Georgian film and theatre actor. He appeared in 58 films between 1966 and 2009. In 2013 he was a member of the jury at the 35th Moscow International Film Festival. Fi ...

as Temur *

Chulpan Khamatova Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova PAR (russian: Чулпан Наилевна Хаматова; tt-Cyrl, Чулпан Наил кызы Хаматова; born 1 October 1975) is a Russian film, theater and TV actress Biography Early life and theat ...

as Katya * Svetlana Kopylova as Larisa, Valeriy's wife * Vera Voronkova as Tamara * Natalya Loskutova as Olga Pavlovna *

Sergey Nikonenko Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko (russian: Серге́й Петрович Никоненко; born 16 April 1941 in Moscow) is a Russian actor. He performed in more than eighty films since 1961. Selected filmography * 1967 ** ''The Red and the Whit ...

as Fyodor * Mikhail Bogdasarov as Said

Screenings

''Time of a Dancer'' was screened in the Stalker Human Rights Film Festival's regional presentation in

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in 2010, where Abdrashitov engaged in discussion about the film with the audience.

Awards

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 ...

(1997): Best Screenplay (Aleksandr Mindadze), Best Male Supporting Role (Zurab Kipshidze) *

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 ...

(1998) Grand PrixЕлена Стишова представит фильм «Время танцора»
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Locarno Festival The Locarno Film Festival is an annual film festival, held every August in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narrative, documentary, sh ...

(1998) Special Jury Prize

References

External links

* 1998 films 1990s Russian-language films Russian drama films 1997 drama films Films directed by Vadim Abdrashitov Mosfilm films Russian war drama films 1990s war drama films {{Russia-film-stub