His Wife's Diary

His Wife's Diary
Directed by Alexei Uchitel
Produced by Alexander Golutva
Natalia Smirnova
Alexei Uchitel
Written by Dunya Smirnova
Starring Andrei Smirnov
Galina Tyunina
Olga Budina
Yevgeny Mironov
Music by Leonid Desyatnikov
Cinematography Yuri Klimenko
Edited by Elena Andreeva
Production
company
Rock Films
Release date
  • 2000 (2000)
Running time
 110 minutes
Country Russia
Language Russian

His Wife's Diary (Russian: Дневник его жены, translit. Dnevnik ego zheny) is a 2000 Russian film directed by Alexei Uchitel. It is a story about the last love affair of Ivan Bunin (played by Andrei Smirnov). It is set in the French Riviera in the 1940s.

His Wife's Diary was awarded the Grand Prize of the Kinotavr Festival[1] and the 2000 Nika Award for Best Film, Best Male Actor (Smirnov) and Best Cinematography (Klimenko).[2] It was Russia's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3][4]

Plot

A tragic story of love and loneliness - this is the unknown life of the great Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The confused love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov. A work of great honesty and piercing psychology.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Призеры 1991-2005 гг". Kinotavr.
  2. ↑ "Лауреаты Национальной кинематографической премии «НИКА» за 2000 год". Nika Award.
  3. ↑ "Record 46 Countries in Race for Oscar". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2000-11-20. Archived from the original on 2008-04-05. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
  4. ↑ "AMPAS Announces the Nominees for the 73rd Academy Awards". indieWire. Archived from the original on 2008-10-23. Retrieved 2008-07-19.


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