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Original name: Dylda
English name: Beanpole
Year:2019
Run time: 137'
Language: Russian
Type (Colour/ Black & white):Colour
Country: Russia
Director: Kantemir Balagov
Producers: Sergey Melkumov, Alexander Rodnyansky
Cast: VikroriaMiroshnichenko, VasilisaPerelygina, TimofeyGlazkov, AndreyBykov, Igor Shirokov
Screenplay: Kantemir Balagov, Alexander Terekhov
Cinematographer: Ksenia Sereda
Editor: Igor Litoninskiy
Sound Designer: Rostislav Alimov
Music Composers: Evgueni Galperine
Costume Designer: Olga Smirnova
Production Designer: Sergey Ivanov
Production Company: Non-Stop Production, AR Content
World Sales: Wild Bunch
World Sales Phone: + 33 4 93 68 73 53
World Sales Email: ediederix@wildbunch.eu
KantemirBalagov was born in Nalchik, Russia, in 1991. Beanpole marks his second feature film, Balagov having made his directorial debut with Closeness (2017), which premiered at the Cannes in Un Certain Regard and was awarded the FIPRESCI prize. Balagov graduated from Alexander Sokurov’sdirecting workshop at Kabardino-Balkarian State University in 2015. During his studies, he made a number of fiction and documentary films which took part in various domestic and international events. Beanpole (2019won him Best Director award at the Cannes, in Un Certain Regard.
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