Garpastum
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Cast & Crew
Aleksey German Jr.
Danila Kozlovsky
Evgeny Pronin
Chulpan Khamatova
Iamze Sukhitashvili
Dmitry Vladimirov
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Synopsis
Centers on the lives of four friends, two of them, Andrey and Nikolai, are brothers. In the past, their father was a patron of sports or at least someone with a keen interest in football. He bet all of his money on the Russian Olympic team, but they lost 0:16 to the Germans in Stockholm in 1912. It ruined him and he lost his mind. Then their mother died and now the brothers live in the apartment of their uncle who is a doctor. They too are infatuated with football. They try out for the adult teams formed by Englishmen who work in St. Petersburg. They aren't taken, and so they decide to form their own team. But they need to buy a field, and so they start to play football for money. One of them begins an affair with a much older woman from Serbia, but little by little everything turns into drama. One of the friends is cruelly assassinated and thus begins the demise of a group of friends and their dream. Then Nikolai goes into the army and returns in 1918 to a different reality.
Director
Aleksey German Jr.
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Miscellaneous Notes
Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) May 25-June 18, 2006.
Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Cinema of Our Time) September 28-October 13, 2006.
Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Competition) August 31-September 10, 2005.
Released in United States 2005
Released in United States 2006
Released in United States 2005
Released in United States 2005 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Competition) August 31-September 10, 2005.)
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) May 25-June 18, 2006.)
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at Vancouver International Film Festival (Cinema of Our Time) September 28-October 13, 2006.)
