Brodsky Is Not a Poet (2016)

Fellow poets, excited ladies, the love of his life, Marina Basmanova, two psychiatric hospitals, KGB interrogations, a People's Court, prison, exile, forced emigration. All of this was Brodsky's Leningrad. The biography, which was written for, in Akhmatova's words, "our red-head". On the fourth of June 1972, when the plane carrying Brodsky took off from Pulkovo airport, this biography ended. And a new life began that almost no one in his homeland is aware of. Russia, America, Italy, Sweden, Finland - the filmmakers have traced the journey of their hero, perhaps the most well-traveled of all Russian writers. The places, that became his biography. And the people, that defined his fate.

Released

2016-11-04

Genres

Documentary

Runtime

100 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Ilya Belov, Nikolay Kartoziya, Anton Zhelnov

TMDB rating

8.7/10 from 3 votes