Yuri BYKOV
Юрий БЫКОВ
Youri BYKOV
Russia, 2014, 116mn 
fiction
Durak
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Дурак

 

 The Fool !

 L'Idiot !

 
Directed by : Yuri BYKOV (Юрий БЫКОВ)
Writing credits : Yuri BYKOV (Юрий БЫКОВ)
 
Cast
Sergey ARTSIBASHEV (Сергей АРЦИБАШЕВ)
Pyotr BARANCHEYEV (Пётр БАРАНЧЕЕВ)
Nikolay BUTENIN (Николай БУТЕНИН)
Artiom BYSTROV (Артем БЫСТРОВ)
Vladimir ILIN (Владимир ИЛЬИН)
Dmitry KULICHKOV (Дмитрий КУЛИЧКОВ)
Daria MOROZ (Дарья МОРОЗ)
Boris NEVZOROV (Борис НЕВЗОРОВ)
Irina NIZINA (Ирина НИЗИНА)
Maksim PINSKER (Максим ПИНСКЕР )
Kirill POLUKHIN (Кирилл ПОЛУХИН)
Liubov RUDENKO (Любовь РУДЕНКО )
Natalia SURKOVA (Наталья СУРКОВА)
Yuri TSURILO (Юрий ЦУРИЛО)
 
Cinematography : Kirill KLEPALOV (Кирилл КЛЕПАЛОВ)
Music : Yuri BYKOV (Юрий БЫКОВ)
Editing : Yuri BYKOV (Юрий БЫКОВ)
Produced by : Kira SAKSAGANSKAYA (Кира САКСАГАНСКАЯ), Aleksey UCHITEL (Алексей УЧИТЕЛЬ)
Companies : ТПО "Рок". TPO "Rock"
Film revenue in Russia : 0.20850 million dollars
Spectators : 4 900
Release Date in Russia : 11/12/2014
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb
Release date in France : 2015-11-18, Site

Awards :
Audience Award Festival de films russes Kinorama au cinéma Royal de Biarritz, Biarritz (France), 2016
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Natalia SURKOVA , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
Best Screenplay Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
Best actor Artiom BYSTROV , Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2014
Audience Award Arras International Film Festival, Arras (France), 2014
Prix de la mise en scène Arras International Film Festival, Arras (France), 2014
First prize Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2014
Youth Jury Prize Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2014
Best Cinematography Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2014

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Trigon-film. 2014. Titre : Durak
Editor : Condor Entertainment. 2019. Titre : L'Idiot

Plot synopsis
“Fool” is a film about a simple plumber who is an honest man and struggles with a whole system of officials who are all connected with each other. The question at stake is the life of 800 inhabitants of an old hostel which, most likely, will collapse during the night
 

commentaries
«Дурак» , «Левиафан» , «Время первых» : 8 российских операторов — о своих фильмах и о профессии, Mikhail Morkin, Sergey Sychev, kinopoisk.ru, 2020
« L’idiot » de Yuri Bykov . Critique dvd, lheuredelasortie.com, 2019
Durak , le choc russe du festival de Locarno, Pascal GAVILLET, nashagazeta.ch, 2014
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2022
- Reflets du cinéma de la Mer Noire en Mayenne, Different cities (France), 2022
- Scènes et Ciné - Programme Panorama - Cinématographies de Russie et d'Europe Centrale, Fos sur Mer (France), 2019
- Cairo International Film Festival, Cairo (Egypt), 2018
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2017
- Russian film festival in Ajaccio, Ajaccio (France), 2016
- URuSSie. Panorama du cinéma russe d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, Penmarc'h (France), 2016
- Days of Russian cinema, Aix les Bains (France), 2016
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2016
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2016
- Festival de films russes Kinorama au cinéma Royal de Biarritz, Biarritz (France), 2016
- Festival international du film de Marrakech : FIFM, Marrakech (Morocco), 2016
- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2015
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2015-11-18
- The Dublin International Film Festival, Dublin (Ireland), 2015
- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2015
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2015
- Belgrade International Film Festival, Belgrade (Serbia), 2015
- Istanbul International Film Festival, Istanbul (Turkey), 2015
- New Directors New Films, New York (USA), 2015
- Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2014
- Arras International Film Festival, Arras (France), 2014
- FilmFestival Cottbus - Festival of East European Cinema, Cottbus (Germany), 2014
- Busan International Film Festival : BIFF, Busan (Pusan) (Korea, South), 2014
- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2014
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
- Festival des Films de Russie et d'Ailleurs, Geneva - Lausanne (Switzerland), 2014
- Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2014
- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2014

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