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Devoted to the last days of Soviet writer, poet, and Gulag survivor Varlam Shalamov, this film follows the efforts of two of Shalamov’s most devoted admirers to preserve the author’s legacy. Having lost his sight and hearing and living in a retirement home, he carried on doing the only thing that mattered to him — writing — until his final breath. This film is a testament to the value of writings that tell the unpalatable truths of the 20th century. To evoke the gritty texture of the Soviet world, Sententia is shot on 16mm black and white film.Read moreLess
Devoted to the last days of Soviet writer, poet, and Gulag survivor Varlam Shalamov, this film follows the efforts of two of Shalamov’s most devoted admirers to preserve the author’s legacy. Having lost his sight and hearing and living in a retirement home, he carried on doing the only thing that mattered to him — writing — until his final breath. This film is a testament to the value of writings that tell the unpalatable truths of the 20th century. To evoke the gritty texture of the Soviet world, Sententia is shot on 16mm black and white film.
The story
Devoted to the last days of Soviet writer, poet, and Gulag survivor Varlam Shalamov, this film follows the efforts of two of Shalamov’s most devoted admirers to preserve the author’s legacy. Having lost his sight and hearing and living in a retirement home, he carried on doing the only thing that mattered to him — writing — until his final breath. This film is a testament to the value of writings that tell the unpalatable truths of the 20th century. To evoke the gritty texture of the Soviet world, Sententia is shot on 16mm black and white film.
Cast & crew
Alexandr Ryazantsev
Pavel TabakovCast
Fyodor LavrovCast
Ivan KraskoCast
Alyona Konstantinova
Miriam SekhonCast
Sergey MarinCast
Yuliya MarchenkoCastExplore the crew
- Producer
- Lyubov Sviblova
- Producer
- Elena Bystrova
- Producer
- Mikhail Shchukin
- Producer
- Pavel Gorin
- Producer
- Kira Saksaganskaya
- Producer
- Alexey Uchitel
- Director of Photography
- Alexey Filippov
- Screenplay
- Dmitry Rudakov
- Director
- Dmitry Rudakov
- Original Music Composer
- Stepan Sevastyanov