''Dyuba-Dyuba'' (russian: Дюба-Дюба) is a 1992 Russian
crime drama film
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directed by
Aleksandr Khvan
Aleksandr Fyodorovich Khvan (russian: Александр Фёдорович Хван; born 28 December 1957 in Cheboksary, Chuvash ASSR) is a Russian film director and actor. His debut film ''Dyuba-Dyuba'' was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film F ...
. It was entered into the
1993 Cannes Film Festival
The 46th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 1993. The Palme d'Or went to '' Farewell My Concubine'' by Chen Kaige and ''The Piano'' by Jane Campion.
The festival opened with ''My Favorite Season'', directed by André Téchiné and cl ...
.
The film won the award for Best Sound at the 1992
Nika Awards
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
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Plot
The action takes place in the late 1980s in the
Soviet Union after the collapse. The life of
VGIK
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (russian: Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С. А. Герасимова, meaning
''All-Russian State Institute of Cinemat ...
student Andrei Pletnyov (Oleg Menshikov) is going smoothly, but he commits a serious crime to get money for a jailbreak of his former lover. But their meeting after the successful escape does not bring happiness – during the years of separation they have become strangers to each other. Through the whole picture the underlying theme is a popular topic of those times – emigration to America (Andrei is planning to go there no matter what happens and offers Tatiana to do the same).
After yet another nervous breakdown, without shying away Tatiana comes to the house of her lover Kolya and gets into the hands of the police. Hopeless Andrei tries to find a way to get revenge on his opponent, he comes to him to iron out their relationship, but after getting seriously wounded with a knife, he sets off a grenade which explodes the whole apartment.
Cast
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Oleg Menshikov
Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, PAR (russian: Оле́г Евге́ньевич Ме́ньшиков, link=no; born 8 November 1960) is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer. He is the current artistic director of the Yermolova Thea ...
as Andrei Pletnyov
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Anzhela Belyanskaya as Tanya Vorobyova
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Grigori Konstantinopolsky as Viktor
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Aleksandr Tyunin as Igor
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Aleksandr Negreba as Kolya
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Viktor Terelya
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Film
* ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film
* ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...
as Oleg
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Vladimir Golovin
Vladimir Golovin ( hu, Golovin Vlagyimir; born 21 March 1970) is a former team handball, handball player and the current head coach of the Hungary women's national handball team, Hungarian women's national team.
Born in Odessa, Soviet Union, G ...
as guard
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Georgi Taratorkin
Georgy Georgievich Taratorkin (russian: Георгий Георгиевич Тараторкин; 11 January 1945 – 4 February 2017) was a Soviet-Russian film and stage actor who appeared in over 70 films between 1967 and 2017. He was the Se ...
as lawyer
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Farhad Mahmudov as Dzhanik
References
External links
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1992 films
1992 crime drama films
Russian crime drama films
1990s Russian-language films
Films directed by Aleksandr Khvan
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