Director Konstantin Lopushansky

Script Konstantin Lopushansky, Pavel Finn

Camera Dimitry Mass

Design Elena Zhukova

Cast: Maxim Sukhanov, Maria Järvenhelmi, Anastasia Shevelyova, Leonid Mozgovoi

Producer Andrei Sigle

Production Proline Film, Lenfilm Studio, Belarusfilm Studio, BUFO, SIGMA, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the Belarus Republic, Eurimages

“The Role” is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life – the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, he decides to slip into the life of his doppelganger – a revolutionary leader in the new Soviet Russia. First intrigued, then obsessed, he flings himself into the role and lives it to the hilt… even when the play of the life he is writing heads towards a tragic finale. Based on true incidents in the lives of Russia’s symbolists, this gripping film explores how far one man will go for the role of a lifetime.

 

* Nika Award

* Prize of the Moscow IFF

* Prize to the Best Actor at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

* 2 awards at the Golden Phoenix Festival in Smolensk