Music for December

Music for December
Directed by	Ivan Dykhovichny
Written by	Ivan Dykhovichny Marina Sheptunova
Produced by	Leonid Lebedev
Starring	Gregory Hlady Yelena Safonova
Cinematography	Sergei Kozlov
Edited by	Eleonora Belova
Music by	Anton Batagov
Release date	1995 (1995)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Music for December (Russian: Музыка для декабря, translit. Muzyka dlya dekabrya) is a 1995 Russian drama film directed by Ivan Dykhovichny. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Plot

Alexander Larin, a successful Leningrad artist, an emigrant of the last wave, returns to his homeland and meets his former lover Anna and her daughter Masha. What will end the journey to a country that no longer exists? And love, and the former itself, too. The past overtakes the hero as retribution.

Cast

• Gregory Hlady as Larin
• Viktor Bychkov as cyclist
• Nikolai Chindyajkin as Samoilov
• Dmitry Dykhovichny as Dima
• Sergei Kalvarsky as advertising director
• Andrei Kostyukevich as Rastorguev
• Irina Osnovina as pedicurist
• Irina Piganova as Lera
• Margarita Romanova as Secretary
• Yelena Safonova as Anna Bersenyova
• Vadim Stepantsov as Plotnikov
• Natalya Zhukova as Masha

Awards

• Nika Award for the best sound engineer's work (Ekaterina Popova)[2]

References

1. "Festival de Cannes: Music for December". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
2. Лауреаты премии «Ника»-1996 на официальном сайте

External links

• Music for December at IMDb