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An Independent Life is a russe film of genre Drama directed by Vitali Kanevski with Dinara Droukarova
An Independent Life (1992)
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Add to a movie listAn Independent Life (Russian: Самостоятельная жизнь, translit. Samostoyatelnaya zhizn) is a 1992 Russian film directed by Vitali Kanevsky. It is the second in a trilogy of autobiographical films.[1] The film was an international co-production between companies in Russia, France and the UK, including StudioCanal and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. It has never been distributed in the English-speaking world.
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Ce film est la suite de Bouge pas, meurs, ressuscite, sorti en 1989 (le premier film de Vitali Kanevsky). Le héros, Valerka, sortant de l'adolescence, survit à Soutchan dans cette région orientale de la Sibérie à l’ère stalinienne où la civilisation semble n'être pas encore arrivée. Conditions de vie sauvage, extrême, pauvreté au delà de l'imaginable. Entre désespoir et rêve, c'est pourtant de cette vie moyenâgeuse que le réalisateur lui-même, comme un miracle, s'est échappé.Actors
Dinara Droukarova
(Валя)
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