Bury Me Behind the Baseboard

2009 Russian film
  • 3 December 2009 (2009-12-03)
Running time
110 minutesCountryRussiaLanguageRussianBudget$1 million

Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (Russian: Похорoните меня за плинтусом, romanized: Pokhoronite menya za plintusom) is a 2009 Russian psychological drama film directed by Sergey Snezhkin, based on the autobiographical story of the same name by Pavel Sanayev [ru].[1][2]

Plot

Eight-year-old Sasha Savelyev lives with his grandmother and actor-grandfather. The boy is not given to his mother. The grandmother takes care of her often ill grandson and brings him up with crazy love, which gradually turns into a real tyranny.

Cast

  • Aleksandr Drobitko as Grandson
  • Svetlana Kryuchkova as Grandma
  • Aleksei Petrenko as Granddad
  • Maria Shukshina as Mother
  • Konstantin Vorobyov as Tolik
  • Valery Kukhareshin as Aaron Moiseevich, homeopath

Production

Actresses Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Elena Sanayeva and Era Ziganshina claimed the role of grandmother.[3]

Svetlana Kryuchkova claims that many of the film's scenes, which made it closer to the book, were cut at the behest of the producers.[4][5]

Accolades

Winner of the 2009 Nika Award in the categories "Best Actress" (Svetlana Kryuchkova) and "Best Supporting Actress" (Maria Shukshina).[6]

References

  1. ^ Александр Нечаев (2009-11-26). "Павел Санаев: "В кино не должно быть правды жизни"". Комсомольская правда. Archived from the original on 2011-03-17. Retrieved 2011-02-06.
  2. ^ Екатерина Визгалова (2009-06-13). "Кинотавр 2009 / День шестой / Конкурс / «Похороните меня за плинтусом»". kino-teatr.ru.
  3. ^ "Похорoните меня за плинтусом". КиноПоиск. 2009-12-23.
  4. ^ Александр Нечаев (2009-12-02). "Актриса Светлана Крючкова: "На съёмках меня чуть саму не похоронили за плинтусом!"". Комсомольская правда. Archived from the original on 2010-08-26. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
  5. ^ "Похороните меня за плинтусом (фотогалерея, часть 1)". Archived from the original on 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2022-07-27.
  6. ^ Пётр Ненароков, Сергей Савостьянов (2010-04-01). "Вчера в Москве назвали лауреатов премии «Ника 2010»" (in Russian). Российская газета. Retrieved 2010-06-04.

External links

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