You Cried in Your Sleep

In a Dream You Wept Bitterly (Russian: Во сне ты горько плакал, romanizedVo sne ty gor'ko plakal) is a dramatic film by Russian director Nikolay Solodnikov, a film adaptation of the story of the same name by Yuri Kazakov with Ivan Urgant in the title role. The premiere of the film took place on April 7, 2024.

You Cried in Your Sleep
Russian: Во сне ты горько плакал
Directed byNikolay Solodnikov[1]
Screenplay byNikolay Solodnikov
Based onIn a Dream You Wept Bitterly
Produced byNikolai Yankin
Natalya Smagina, Aleksandr Sokurov
StarringIvan Urgant
Narrated byYevgeny Zharinov
CinematographyDmitry Nagovsky
Edited bySergey Kalvarsky
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Release date
  • 2024 (2024)
Running time
80 min.
Country Russia
LanguageRussian

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The author's monologue addressed to his little son Alyosha. An almost plotless series of sketches about nature and loss, guilt and childhood trauma. Great tragedies here coexist with simple joys, a walk through the forest brings back memories of saying goodbye to an arrested father, the cry of a child during a nap becomes a parting with infancy. The flow of thought, the alternation of images turns the story into an attempt to either reconstruct or build a world of childhood happiness and understand why and at what moment each of us loses this little paradise.[2]

Cast

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Production

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The film was shot in St. Petersburg and the Novgorod Oblast, and was produced by the Alexander Sokurov's Foundation.[3]

Attempts of a ban

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The head of the Russian Federal Project on Security and Anti-Corruption, Vitaly Borodin, appealed to the Ministry of Culture with a request not to issue a distribution certificate for the film, which was directed by Nikolay Solodnikov, the husband of Katerina Gordeeva, recognized as a foreign agent in Russia. Borodin also called Urgant, Solodovnikov and Sokurov “Russophobes”.[4][5]

References

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  1. ^ "Новости недели: фильмы Астера и Андерсона, игровой дебют Николая Солодникова и зрелищный боевик Дева Пателя". КиноПоиск (in Russian).
  2. ^ "Юрий Казаков. Во сне ты горько плакал (1977)". Полка (in Russian).
  3. ^ "Посмотрите трейлер фильма «Во сне ты горько плакал» с Иваном Ургантом. Ролик опубликовал в соцсетях режиссер Николай Солодников". RBK Group (in Russian). April 8, 2024.
  4. ^ "Минкульт попросили запретить новый фильм с Ургантом". Gazeta.ru (in Russian).
  5. ^ "В Минкультуры обратились с требованием запретить прокат нового фильма с Ургантом". Pravda.ru (in Russian).