Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
Sergei Dovlatov

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Elena Dovlatova

Katya Dovlatova

Iosif Brodskiy

Anton Kuznetsov

Actress - Dovlatov's friend

Young editor

Sholom Shvarts - artist

Semyon Aleksandrovich

Nora Dovlatova - Sergei Dovlatov mother

Deputy director of the plant

Factory Newspaper Editor

Editor of Literary Magazine

Finnish tourist

Dovlatov's friend

Guest at Semen's dacha

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Pushkin

Dostoevsky
Natasha Rostova
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Leonid Brezhnev

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