Russian Symphony ( Russkaya simfoniya) is a 1994 Russian psychological drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky and starring Viktor Mikhaylov. The narrative is set in a dark version of contemporary Russia where the world seems to be coming to an end through a flood. A man is desperate to do something good with his life before it ends, but is mostly met with suspicion.
The film ties in thematically with Lopushansky's other apocalyptic films, Dead Man's Letters (1986), A Visitor to a Museum (1989) and The Ugly Swans (2006), and is the most overtly religious of them.
It played in the Forum section of the 45th Berlin International Film Festival and received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.
Cast
Viktor Mikhaylov as Ivan Sergeyevich Mazayev
Aleksandr Ilyin as Sanya
Kira Kreylis-Petrova as Valentina Ivanovna Mazdukhina
Valentina Kovel as Semyonovna
Mikhail Khrabrov as General
Valentin Golubenko as Giliuli
Natalya Akimova as Teacher
Nora Gryakalova as Teacher
Aleksey Ingelevich
Nikolai Levykin as Mikhail Gorbachev
Valery Garkalin as Borisych
Andrey Krasko as Cossack
References
External links
1994 films
1994 drama films
1990s psychological drama films
1990s fantasy drama films
Christian apocalyptic films
Cultural depictions of Mikhail Gorbachev
Films directed by Konstantin Lopushansky
Russian fantasy drama films
Russian dystopian films
1990s Russian-language films
Lenfilm films
