Day of the Full Moon
День полнолуния
Day of the Full Moon, a series of vignettes from Russia past and present, summons the spirit of Ophuls’ La Ronde, Altman’s Nashville and Short Cuts, and the time-shifting strategies of Resnais (Mon Oncle d’Amérique) to tell provocative, connected stories illustrating the waltz of years and whim of memory. In 1948, a young man, a boy, and a waiter are captivated during the full moon by a mysterious woman in a lilac dress. The effects of this event ripple across the years, washing over more than 80 characters, including a disc jockey, a fairy princess, a gangster, Alexander Pushkin, and a nostalgic dog. But which of these are dreams, and which reality? Director Shakhnazarov continues his career-long focus on the intersection of past and present with this mysterious, exhilarating mosaic of humankind, which in the end both seduces and satisfies.
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Oleg Kazancheev
Vladimir Ilin
as Rebrov
Igor Pismennyi
Sergey Badichkin
Aleksandr Robak
Vladimir Karpovich
Filipp Yankovsky
as Monk
Olga Sidorova
Oksana Timanovskaya
Natalya Fateeva
Sergey Yushkevich
Galina Anisimova
as Vera
Aleksei Shevchenkov
Vilor Kuznetsov
Nikolay Chindyaykin
Malcolm McDowell
Yuriy Tuzov
Aleksei Krasnopolskiy
Gennadiy Khrapunkov
Fyodor Sukhov
Anna Sinyakina
as Call girl
Evgeniy Stychkin
Maksim Lagashkin
Anna Germ
as Woman in purple
Yelena Koreneva
as Zoya
Valeriy Priyomykhov
as Script writer
Valery Afanasyev
as Egor
Andrey Lebedev
as man from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Yuri Sidorov
Filipp Lebedev
Valeriy Storozhik
as Director
Nadezhda Vasilyeva
Andrei Panin
as Captain
