The circus burnt out and all the clowns took a run
- Genre
- drama
- Director
- Vladimir Bortko
- Screenwriter
- Vladimir Bortko
- Director of Photography
- Sergey Lando, Yevgeniy Shermergor
- Production Designer
- Vladimir Svetozarov
- Costume Designer
- Marina Nikolayeva
- Composer
- Vladimir Dashkevich
- Sound Director
- Natalya Avanesova
- Film Editor
- Leda Semyonova
- Producers
- Aleksandr Golutva
- Production
- “Lenfilm”, NTV-PROFIT, Studio “2-B-2”, the State Cinema Committee of the Russian Federation
- Director of Photography:
- Sergei Lando, Yevgeni Shermergor
Annotation
A film director Nicolay Hudokormov is on the eve of his fiftieth birthday. He has a rich life full of events under his belt: artistic quests, numerous marriages, children who have become alienated. It seems that Nicolay crossed the line and everything appears to be insignificant, uninteresting and incurious. It's all over the hill now. He is broke, he is indifferent to his own life and his old mother is almost insane living in some other world. But one thought haunts Nicolay’s mind. He must shoot his best film. And though the scenario exists only in his mind, he believes that it will be a remarkable film.
Awards
- 1998 TheOpen Russian Film Festival “Kinotavr” – “Best actress” (Zinaida Sharko), M. Tariverdiev Prize for the “Best music to the film” (Vladimir Dashkevich)
- 1998 The Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" – Jury Special Prize
- 1998 TheFilm Festival “Love Cinema!” (A. Khanzhonkov & Co.) – “Lumière Bronze Medal”
Nominations
- 1998 The Nika Award of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences – “Best film music” (Vladimir Dashkevich)
- 1998 Participation in festivals
- 1998 The Open Russian Film Festival “Kinotavr”, Sochi
- 1998 The Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" in Vyborg
- 1998 TheFilm Festival “Love Cinema!” (A. Khanzhonkov & Co.), Moscow
- 1998 The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic
- 1998 The International Film Festival “Festival of Festivals”, St. Petersburg
