Sky in Diamonds
Synopsis
A new-born baby is found in a snowy Moscow street. Abandoned on the centenary of Anton Chekhov's birthday, the child is given the famous Russian writer's name in the hope that it will one day protect him from the delinquency into which so many young orphans fall. But Anton Chekhov has a double destiny – he will become both writer and gangster.
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Director (1)
Actors (7)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Parnasse Production/Parnasse International
- Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
- French distribution : Rosem Films
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Sylvain Bursztejn
- Screenwriters : Maria Khmelik, Boris Babkine
- Director of Photography : Andrëi Makarov
- Music Composer : Alexei Chelyguine
- Sound Recordist : Ian Pototski
- Costume designer : Ekaterina Kotova
- Press Attaché (film) : Agnès Chabot
- Production Designers : Andrëi Makarov, Vassili Pitchoul
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : Russian
- Coproducer countries : Russia, France
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Minority French (Russia, France)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 03/11/1999
- Runtime : 1 h 50 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 92.657
- Visa issue date : 05/10/1999
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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News & awards
Selections (1)
Moscow - International Film Festival
Russia, 1999
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About
The expression "sky in diamonds" was first used by Anton Chekhov in "Uncle Vania." The words are spoken by a girl by battered by life, patiently waiting for her end to come so she at last can find peace and begin a new joyful existence free of cares. The expression continues to strike a chord in the hearts of present-day Russians. But in the film, unlike Chekhov's heroine, the man says the words with irony. I wanted to reassure my fellow Russians, at the mercy of history's whims, caught in an inextricable tangle of tragic, comic, fantastic, romantic, criminal and - in one sense - absurd events.
Vassili Pitchoul - Director, excerpt from the press folder
