''After You're Gone'' () is a 2016 Russian drama film directed by Anna Matison.
Plot
Famous ballet dancer Alexey Temnikov (
Sergey Bezrukov
Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov (; born 18 October 1973) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, singer, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He currently works at Tabakov Studio (the theatre of ...
) dedicated his whole life to the stage, performing in various halls around the world. The press referred to him as "genius of dance" and compared him with
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov ( rus, Михаил Николаевич Барышников, p=mʲɪxɐˈil bɐ'rɨʂnʲɪkəf; ; born January 27, 1948) is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor. He was the preeminent male ...
.
But in the 1990s, Temnikov suffered a serious spinal injury, which interrupted his dancing career. Alexey returned to his native town in the suburbs with a population of 70 thousand people and opened his own dance school-studio and an apothecary business.
After 20 years, Alexey's life does not change, he still lives in his hometown, where he teaches dance. He has a girlfriend named Marina (Karina Andolenko), who is pregnant with his child. Also, Alexey finds out that he has a 12-year-old daughter Chiara, who wants Alexey to teach her dance. But Alexey does not show any initiative in marriage or being a father. After teaching his dance classes, Alexey locks himself up in his office, where he regularly asks himself: "What will be left from me after I'm gone?".
But soon the old trauma, once again makes itself felt. He finds out that soon he will not even be able to walk, which to Alexey is the same as death.
Sometime ago he created an original ballet set to
Prokofiev's music, but did not yet have the courage make a public performance out of it. Alexey becomes convinced that now is the time for him to make a comeback and to stage the ballet.
Cast
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Sergey Bezrukov
Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov (; born 18 October 1973) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, singer, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He currently works at Tabakov Studio (the theatre of ...
as Alexey Germanovich Temnikov
*Aliza Rajan as Poppy
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Anastasia Bezrukova as Chiara
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Alyona Babenko
Alyona Olegovna Babenko (; ; born March 31, 1972) is a Russian film and theater actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2013).
Biography
Elena Baranova, known professionally as Alyona Babenko was born in Kemerovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet ...
as mother of Chiara
*Karina Andolenko as Marina Kuznetsova ("The Desman")
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as Herman Temnikov, father of Alexey
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Maria Smolnikova as Alisa
*Tamara Akulova as Lyubov Temnikova, Alexey's mother
*Stepan Kulikov as Stepan
*Galina Bokashevskaya as teacher
*Sergey Vershinin as Vladislav
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Valery Gergiev
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev (, ; ; born 2 May 1953) is a Russian conducting, conductor and opera company director. He is currently general director and artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre and of the Bolshoi Theatre and artistic director o ...
as cameo
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Radu Poklitaru as cameo
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Alla Duhova as cameo
*Dmitry Khrustalev as cameo
*Vyacheslav Kulaev as judge on the show
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Sergey Gazarov as Sergey, a doctor from Moscow
*Vitaly Egorov as Nikolai Martynov, director of the Bolshoi Theater
*Alexander Sivaev as artist
*Kirill Kroshman-Klimov as foreman
References
External links
2016 films
2016 drama films
Russian drama films
Films about ballet
2010s Russian films
2010s Russian-language films
Russian-language drama films
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