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Chernov/Chernov

1990-10-06 · 94 min · ★ 6.5

Drama

The strange title is explained by the fact that there are two films in the film: one is about a real day in the life of the real Moscow architect Alexander Petrovich Chernov, his mental crisis; and the other is Chernov’s fiction. There is a different fate, a different country, a different life. It is into this very life that Chernov strives to get into - and for the sake of a trip to Spain he will have to commit betrayal. There, for a moment, the doubles will be nearby and both will be on the verge of death. Who will die in the spring of 1978?

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Directors
Sergei Yursky
Production companies
Mosfilm, Tvorcheskoe Obedinenie "Tovarishch"
Countries
Soviet Union, Spain
Status
Released

Top Cast

Andrey SmirnovAndrey SmirnovChernov
Elena YakovlevaElena YakovlevaIrina / Irene
Oleg BasilashviliOleg BasilashviliSeva Yarmak
Mikhail DanilovMikhail DanilovLev Deyan
Yelena KorenevaYelena KorenevaYelena Trukhanovich
Sergei YurskySergei YurskyArnold
Dmitry BulbaDmitry BulbaPyotr, Chernov's son
Shirvani ChalaevShirvani ChalaevKhalaf
Andrei TolubeyevAndrei TolubeyevGleb Gusev
Sergey MakovetskiySergey MakovetskiyKostya Shlyapin
Natalya TenyakovaNatalya TenyakovaTanya, Chernov's wife
Lyubov StrizhenovaLyubov StrizhenovaSeva Yarmak's wife
Darya YurskayaDarya YurskayaChernov's neighbor
Pavel LyubimtsevPavel LyubimtsevSwift
Igor UgolnikovIgor UgolnikovTrain Conductor
Aleksandr RezalinAleksandr RezalinTrain Conductor
Vladimir SulimovVladimir SulimovOVIR employee
Andrey SorokinAndrey SorokinKGB agent
Grigori GurvichChernov's colleague
Oleg IzmaylovOleg Izmaylov

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