Far from Sunset Boulevard (2006)

8.5/10 138 min Drama Romance History

Overview

The thirties, the heyday of Soviet film production. The story of the famed couple's glory — a filmmaker and actress, behind the external well-being of which were hidden strange contradictory relationships and a sense of fear that they carried through their whole lives. The prologue to this story is the 85th anniversary of Lidiya Polyakova, the formerly brightest star in Soviet cinema, who played the main role in all the films of her own husband, director Konstantin Dalmatov. Now in the courtyard there are other times, Dalmatov’s movies are called ideological agitation, and the director himself and his wife are hiding from the world in the country, trying not to let anyone in.

Cast

Yuliya Svezhakova

Lidiya Polyakova

Tatyana Samoylova

Lidiya Polyakova in old age

Igor Dmitriev

Konstantin Dalmatov in old age

Boris Nevzorov

Mansurov

Sergey Kolesnikov

Gorodetsky

Aleksandr Berda

Nazarov

Aleksandr Sirin

Reutov

Lembit Ulfsak

operator Berg

Ivan Shibanov

magician

Tetiana Sheliha

Ada Nikolayevna

Serhii Romaniuk

director of the film studio

Aleksandr Koltsov

Polyakova's partner

Natalya Pozdnyakova

secretary

Mykola Oliinyk

supply manager

Iryna Kravchenko

Terentyeva

Tatyana Nazarova

Serebrovskaya

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