Natalia_2 NAZAROVA
Наталья_2 НАЗАРОВА
Natalia_2 NAZAROVA
Russia, 2012, 44mn 
Colour, documentary
If It Were Not For Kolya Shatrov
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Если бы не Коля Шатров

 

 Si ce n'était Kolia Chatrov

 Esli by ne Kolya Shatrov

 
Directed by : Natalia_2 NAZAROVA (Наталья_2 НАЗАРОВА)
Writing credits : Larisa MALUKOVA (Лариса МАЛЮКОВА), Natalia_2 NAZAROVA (Наталья_2 НАЗАРОВА)
Cinematography : Pyotr VLASKOV (Пётр ВЛАСКОВ)
Sound : Yevgeni GORIAINOV (Евгений ГОРЯИНОВ)
Produced by : Yelena SOLOVTSEVA (Елена СОЛОВЦЕВА), Sergey ZERNOV (Сергей ЗЕРНОВ)
Production : Gorky Film Studio, Studio Rezonans
 

Plot synopsis
Nikolai Vladimirovich Shatrov is a poet whose name is unfamiliar even to the widely-read – his work did not fit the format expected of Soviet poetry in his time. And these days, when interest in poetry is practically zero, few remember him. A pity, for he was an unusual man and a unique poet. It was he who was destined to become the ‘godfather’ of Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Nikolay Shatrov met Boris Pasternak through Jacqueline de Proyart, the famous Slavist who managed to smuggle out of the Soviet Union the only copy of Pasternak’s manuscript with the author’s corrections.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2013
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2012
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2012
- Message to Man : International Short, Documentary and Animated Film Festival, St Petersburg (Russia), 2012