{{Infobox film | name = Russian Symphony | image = Russian Symphony.jpg | alt = Russian Symphony | caption = Film poster | director = Konstantin Lopushansky | producer = Aleksandr Golutva | writer = Konstantin Lopushansky | starring = Viktor Mikhaylov<br>Aleksandr Ilyin<br>Kira Kreylis-Petrova<br>Valery Garkalin | music = Andrey Sigle | cinematography = Nikolai Pokoptsev | editing = | studio = Lenfilm<br>Orient Express | distributor = | released = {{film date|1994|||df=yes}} | runtime = 108 min | country = Russia | language = Russian | budget = | gross = }} '''''Russian Symphony''''' ({{Langx|ru|Русская симфония}} '''''Russkaya simfoniya''''') is a 1994 Russian psychological drama film directed by Konstantin Lopushansky and starring Viktor Mikhaylov. The narrative is set in a dark version of contemporary Russia where the world seems to be coming to an end through a flood. A man is desperate to do something good with his life before it ends, but is mostly met with suspicion.
The film ties in thematically with Lopushansky's other apocalyptic films, ''Dead Man's Letters'' (1986), ''A Visitor to a Museum'' (1989) and ''The Ugly Swans'' (2006), and is the most overtly religious of them.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Birzache|first=Alina G.|year=2016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wl2FCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT113|title=The Holy Fool in European Cinema|location=New York|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-315-65163-7}}</ref>
It played in the Forum section of the 45th Berlin International Film Festival and received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1995/02_programm_1995/02_Filmdatenblatt_1995_19950014.php|title=Russkaja simfinoija|publisher=Berlin International Film Festival|accessdate=2016-05-30|archive-date=2018-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128021154/https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1995/02_programm_1995/02_Filmdatenblatt_1995_19950014.php|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film221406.html|title=Russian Symphony|work=FilmAffinity|accessdate=2016-05-30}}</ref>
==Cast== * Viktor Mikhaylov as Ivan Sergeyevich Mazayev * Aleksandr Ilyin as Sanya * Kira Kreylis-Petrova as Valentina Ivanovna Mazdukhina * Valentina Kovel as Semyonovna * Mikhail Khrabrov as General *Valentin Golubenko as Giliuli * Natalya Akimova as Teacher * Nora Gryakalova as Teacher * Aleksey Ingelevich * Nikolai Levykin as Mikhail Gorbachev * Valery Garkalin as Borisych *Andrey Krasko as Cossack
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb title|0111040}}
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Category:1994 films Category:1994 drama films Category:1990s psychological drama films Category:1990s fantasy drama films Category:Christian apocalyptic films Category:Cultural depictions of Mikhail Gorbachev Category:Films directed by Konstantin Lopushansky Category:Russian fantasy drama films Category:Russian dystopian films Category:1994 Russian films Category:1994 Russian-language films Category:Russian-language fantasy drama films Category:Lenfilm films
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