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In immediate post-WWII Leningrad, two women, Iya and Masha (astonishing newcomers Viktoria Miroshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelygina), intensely bonded after fighting side by side as anti-aircraft gunners, attempt to readjust to a haunted world. As the film begins, Iya, long and slender and towering over everyone—hence the film’s title—works as a nurse in a shell-shocked hospital, presiding over traumatized soldiers. A shocking accident brings them closer and also seals their fates. The 27-year-old Russian director Kantemir Balagov—whose debut feature Closeness caused a stir at Cannes and the New Directors/New Films festival just last year—won Un Certain Regard’s Best Director prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for this richly burnished, occasionally harrowing rendering of the persistent scars of war. —The New York Film Festival
Original Release
06/20/2019
US Release
01/29/2020
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Viktoria Miroshnichenko | Iya Sergueeva / Iya Sergeyevna |
Vasilisa Perelygina | Masha |
Andrey Bykov | Nikolay Ivanovich |
Igor Shirokov | Sasha |
Konstantin Balakirev | Stepan |
Kseniya Kutepova | Lyubov Petrovna |
Alyona Kuchkova | Stepan's Wife |
Timofey Glazkov | Pashka |
Veniamin Kac | Sasha's Friend |
Olga Dragunova | Seamstress |
Directors
Writers
Kantemir Balagov, Aleksandr Terekhov
Cast
Name | Character |
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Viktoria Miroshnichenko | Iya Sergueeva / Iya Sergeyevna |
Vasilisa Perelygina | Masha |
Andrey Bykov | Nikolay Ivanovich |
Igor Shirokov | Sasha |
Konstantin Balakirev | Stepan |
Kseniya Kutepova | Lyubov Petrovna |
Alyona Kuchkova | Stepan's Wife |
Timofey Glazkov | Pashka |
Veniamin Kac | Sasha's Friend |
Olga Dragunova | Seamstress |
Denis Kozinets | Sasha's Father |
Alisa Oleynik | Katya |
Dmitri Belkin | Shepelev |
Lyudmila Motornaya | Olga |
Anastasiya Khmelinina | Nurse Leonova |
Viktor Chuprov | Ryazanov |
Vladimir Verzhbitskiy | Petrenko |
Vladimir Morozov | Sadikov / Sadykov |
M.R. Rzeznik | train driver |
Antunes Filho | old woman |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Platon Emikh | Producer |
Natalya Gorina | Producer |
Alyona Kostenko | Producer |
Sergey Melkumov | Producer |
Michel Merkt | Producer |
Ellen Rodnianski | Producer |
Alexander Rodnyansky | Producer |