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    My Father Evgeni

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    Poster of the movie My Father Evgeni
    Moi otetz Evgeni
    USA/Ukraine
    2010     Documentary    
    1h 17min
    Original language: Russian

    From 1961 through 1979 Evgeni Zagdansky was editor-in-chief of the Kiev Popular Science Film Studio.

    From 1981 through 1992 his son, a film director, Andrei worked in the same film studio.

    In 1992 Andrei along with his family left Kiev and settled in New York.

    Evgeni stayed behind. Evgeni's letters to Andrei and Andrei's narrative of father's life intertwine in the multi-layered fabric of the film creating a portrait of the man, his epoch and a self-portrait of the auteur.

    Directed byAndrei Zagdansky
    Written byAndrei Zagdansky

    Featuring

    Leonid Brezhnev
    Fidel Castro
    Yves Montand
    Simone Signoret
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