Taurus (film)

Taurus
Film poster
Directed by Alexander Sokurov
Produced by Vladimir Persov
Written by Yuri Arabov
Starring Leonid Mozgovoy
Music by Andrey Sigle
Sergei Rachmaninov
Cinematography Alexander Sokurov
Edited by Leda Semyonova
Production
company
Release date
  • 16 May 2001 (2001-05-16)
Running time
 104 minutes
Country Russia
Language Russian

Taurus (Russian: Телец, translit. Telets) is a 2001 Russian biographical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov, portraying Vladimir Lenin. It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Plot

The second film of the director-conceived cinema theater about the decline of power, started by the film Moloch. In the face of illness, the historical personality turns out to be simply a man powerless to change anything not only in the fate of a country that is not yet under his control, but also in the fate of his doomed awkward family, and in the fate of his decaying personality.

Cast

  • Leonid Mozgovoy as Vladimir Lenin
  • Mariya Kuznetsova as Krupskaya
  • Sergei Razhuk as Joseph Stalin
  • Natalya Nikulenko as Sister
  • Lev Yeliseyev as Doctor
  • Nikolai Ustinov as Pacoly

Awards

At the 2001 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards the film was awarded the prizes for Best Film, Best Director (Alexander Sokurov), Best Female Actor (Mariya Kuznetsova), Best Male Actor (Leonid Mozgovoy), Best Screenplay (Yuri Arabov), Best Director of Photography (Alexander Sokurov, Aleksei Rodionov) and Best Art Direction (Natalia Kochergina).[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Taurus". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 18 October 2009.
  2. ↑ "2001". Russian Guild of Film Critics.
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