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Original name: Limonov: The Ballad
English name: Limonov: The Ballad
Year: 2024
Run time: 133 minutes
Language: English, French, Russian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Russia, Italy, France
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Producer: Dimitri Rassam, Ilya Stewart, Lorenzo Gangarossa, Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Viktoria Miroshnichenko
Screenplay: Kirill Serebrennikov, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ben Hopkins
Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov
Editor: Yuriy Karikh
Sound Designer: Boris Voyt
Music Composer: Massimo Pupillo
Animator: Timofey Gostev, Ekaterina Rubleva
Production Designer: Vlad Ogay
Production Company: Wildside, Chapter 2, Fremantle Spain, France 3 Cinéma, Hype Studio
World Sales: The Festival Agency
Kirill Serebrennikov, born in Russia in 1969, initially studied physics at Rostov University before starting his career as a director. He is now one of the leading figures in Russian cinema. His debut feature was Ragin (2004). He won the Best Film Award at the Rome Film Festival for Playing the Victim (2006). His other notable films include Yuri’s Day (2008) and The Student (2016). He competed and won the Soundtrack Award at the Cannes Film Festival for Leto (2018), which was set against the backdrop of the Russian alternative rock scene in the early 1980s. Serebrennikov has continued to produce significant works such as Petrov′s Flu (2021) and Tchaikovsky’s Wife (2022).
A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator and a novelist who wrote of his own greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.
