''Time of a Dancer'' (), also translated as ''Dancer's Time'', is a 1998 Russian war drama film directed by
Vadim Abdrashitov
Vadim Yusupovich Abdrashitov (, ; 19 January 1945 – 12 February 2023) was a Russian film director. He was internationally renowned as one of Russian cinema's most notable independent director (film), directors, with awards from the Berlin Inte ...
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Plot
The soldiers have returned from a war. While they may have won on the battlefront but, they have lost too, because they have forgot how to live in peace. But the war did not destroy the most important thing in them: their will to live.
Chulpan Khamatova
Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova (; ; , born 1 October 1975) is a Russian actress.
Biography Early life and theater career
Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova was born on 1 October 1975 in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, in what was then the Soviet Union. Her parents Mar ...
Sergey Nikonenko
Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko (; born 16 April 1941 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actor, a film director and a screenwriter. He was awarded with People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991).
He performed in more than eighty films since 1961.
Selected ...
Rostov-on-Don
Rostov-on-Don is a port city and the administrative centre of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. It lies in the southeastern part of the East European Plain on the Don River, from the Sea of Azov, directly north of t ...
in 2010, where Abdrashitov engaged in discussion about the film with the audience.
Awards
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Nika Award
The Nika Award (sometimes styled NIKA Award) is the main annual national film award in Russia, presented by the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Science, and seen as the national equivalent of the Oscars.
In 2022 nominees were announced, b ...
(1997): Best Screenplay (Aleksandr Mindadze), Best Male Supporting Role (Zurab Kipshidze)
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Kinotavr
Kinotavr (), also known as the Sochi Open Russian Film Festival was an open film festival held in the resort city of Sochi, Russia annually in June since 1991, until it was cancelled in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.Елена Стишова представит фильм «Время танцора» /ref>
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Locarno Festival
The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narr ...