Dead Man's Letters
1986 film by Konstantin Lopushansky / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dead Man's Letters (Russian: Письма мёртвого человека, romanized: Pis'ma myortvogo cheloveka), also known as Letters from a Dead Man, is a 1986 Soviet post-apocalyptic drama film directed and written by Konstantin Lopushansky. He wrote it along with Vyacheslav Rybakov and Boris Strugatsky. It marks his directorial debut.
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Directed by | Konstantin Lopushansky |
Written by | Konstantin Lopushansky Vyacheslav Rybakov Boris Strugatsky |
Starring | Rolan Bykov Vatslav Dvorzhetsky |
Cinematography | Nikolai Pokoptsev |
Edited by | T. Poulinoi[1] |
Music by | Aleksandr Zhurbin |
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Distributed by | Lenfilm |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
The film was screened at the International Critics' Week section of the Cannes Film Festival in 1987[2] and received the FIPRESCI prize at the 35th International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.[3]
In the aftermath of nuclear apocalypse, a group of people are forced to live underground in bunkers. They cannot go outside their dwellings without wearing protective clothing and gas masks. They try to find hope in the disturbing new world. Among these people is a history teacher who tries to contact via letters his missing son.