It's Russian

It's Russian
Russian: Русское
Directed by	Aleksandr Veledinsky
Written by	Eduard Limonov Aleksandr Veledinskiy
Produced by	Aleksei Alyakin Sergey Chliyants Maksim Lagashkin
Starring	Andrey Chadov Olga Arntgolts Evdokiya Germanova Mikhail Efremov Vladimir Steklov
Cinematography	Pavel Ignatov
Edited by	Tatyana Prilenskaya
Music by	Aleksey Zubarev
Release date	2004 (2004)
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

It's Russian (Russian: Русское) is a 2004 Russian crime comedy-drama film directed by Aleksandr Veledinsky.^[1][2][3]

Plot

In 1959 Kharkov, young poet Eduard "Ed" Savenko is trying to get attention from the girl he fell in love with, Svetka, who tells him that he's "too poor for her". He attempts to find some money to take her to a restaurant, unsuccessfully asking his mother for it, trying to sell a trophy razor from the Nazi Germany, and eventually he ends up robbing a store; yet, in the end, Svetka goes out with a local thief.

In despair, Ed gets drunk and gives Svetka a visit, reading her a poem he wrote, while holding a knife behind his back; however, he doesn't harm her and instead cuts his wrist, what puts him in the Saburova Dacha psychiatric hospital, colloquially known as "Saburka". Due to the children's ward being full, he gets put in a ward with adult patients, which include Uncle Sasha, who pretends he participated in the October Revolution; "Magellan", a diagnosed psychopath; Mikhaylov, who is an expert in literature and often chips off tiles in the bathrooms; and Avaz, who is addicted to masturbation.

Ed and "Magellan" escape not long before the New Year, with Ed having sex with Svetka. Ed visits a church, begging God to make his life interesting, and they are caught by police the next day, thanks to a clue from his mother. She is later told by Ed to tell the local hooligans that he is getting "killed" in the hospital, and they end up rioting in front of the hospital.

Professor Arkhipov from Moscow arrives soon though, and he discharges Ed, since he recognizes his "suicide attempt" as simply an action to get attention from the world.

Cast

• Andrey Chadov as Ed
• Olga Arntgolts as Svetka
• Evdokiya Germanova as Mother
• Mikhail Efremov as Father
• Vladimir Steklov as Zilberman
• Aleksey Gorbunov as Gorkun
• Dmitry Dyuzhev as Slavka
• Anatoliy Zalyubovsky as Kadik
• Oleg Lopukhov as Sanya
• Viktor Rakov as Mikhaylov^[4]

References

1. Умер Эдуард Лимонов
2. Умер писатель и политик Эдуард Лимонов
3. Вечный бунтарь и провокатор. Что оставил после себя Эдуард Лимонов
4. Русское (2004) Full Cast & Crew

External links

• It's Russian at IMDb