• Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Alexey German Jr.
  • Russia, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro 2018
  • 126 minutes
  • Russian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of the brilliant, ironic writer Sergei Dovlatov who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 1970s Soviet Russia. Together with his friend and poet Joseph, he fought to preserve his own talent and integrity while seeing their artist friends getting crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

Alexey German Jr. turns his camera for the first time on his hometown, 1970s Leningrad, and presents a portrait of an era of stagnation and its destructive effects.


  • Director Alexey German Jr.
  • Production Andrey Savelyev, Artem Vasilyev, Konstantin Ernst, Dariusz Jablonski, Isabella Wojcik, Wioleta Kaminska, Miroslav Mogorovich
  • Script Alexey German Jr., Yulia Tupikina
  • Cinematography Lukasz Zal
  • Editing Sergey Ivanov, Darya Gladysheva
  • Festivals Berlinale, Karlovy Vary
  • Actors Milan Maric, Danila Kozlovsky, Helena Sujecka, Artur Beschastny
  • Source Alpha Violet, Paris