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His Wife's Diary

2000 Russian film

2000 (2000)

Running time

110 minutesCountryRussiaLanguageRussian

His Wife's Diary (Russian: Дневник его жены, romanized: Dnevnik ego zheny) is a 2000 Russian biographical film directed by Alexei Uchitel. It is a story about the last love affair of Ivan Bunin (played by Andrei Smirnov). It is set in French Riviera in the 1940s.

His Wife's Diary was awarded the Grand Prize of the Kinotavr Festival^[1] and the 2000 Nika Award for Best Film, Best Male Actor (Smirnov) and Best Cinematography (Klimenko).^[2] It was Russia's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[3]^[4]

Plot

A tragic story of love and loneliness – this is the unknown life of the Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov.

Cast

Andrei Smirnov as Ivan Bunin
Galina Tyunina as Vera Bunina
Olga Budina as Galina Plotnikova
Yevgeny Mironov as Leonid Gurov
Elena Morozova as Marga Kovtun
Dani Kogan as Zhanna
Yuri Stepanov as a guest at the reception

References

^ "Призеры 1991-2005 гг". Kinotavr. Archived from the original on 2012-08-06. Retrieved 2017-04-23.
^ "Лауреаты Национальной кинематографической премии "НИКА" за 2000 год". Nika Award.
^ "Record 46 Countries in Race for Oscar". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 2000-11-20. Archived from the original on 2008-04-05. Retrieved 2008-07-19.
^ "AMPAS Announces the Nominees for the 73rd Academy Awards". indieWire. Archived from the original on 2008-10-23. Retrieved 2008-07-19.

External links

Dnevnik ego zheny at IMDb

Films by Alexei Uchitel

His Wife's Diary (2000)
The Stroll (2003)
Dreaming of Space (2005)
Captive (2008)
The Edge (2010)
Break Loose (2013)
Matilda (2017)
Tsoi (2020)

v t e Nika Award for Best Picture
1988–2000	Repentance (1988) The Cold Summer of 1953 (1989) Ashik Kerib (1990) The Asthenic Syndrome (1991) Promised Heaven (1992) Encore, Once More Encore! (19933) Makarov (1994) Passions (1995) Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1996) Prisoner of the Mountains (1997) The Thief (1998) Of Freaks and Men (1999) Khrustalyov, My Car! (2000)
2001–present	His Wife's Diary (2001) Taurus (2002) The Cuckoo (2003) The Return (2004) Our Own (2005) The 9th Company (2006) The Island (2007) Mongol (2008) Stilyagi (2009) Room and a Half (2010) The Edge (2011) Once Upon a Time There Lived a Simple Woman (2012) Faust (2013) The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2014) Hard to Be a God (2015) Dear Hans, Dear Pyotr [ru] (2016) Paradise (2017) Arrhythmia (2018) Anna's War (2019) A Frenchman (2020) Dear Comrades! (2021)

Nika Award for Best Picture

1988–2000

Repentance (1988)
The Cold Summer of 1953 (1989)
Ashik Kerib (1990)
The Asthenic Syndrome (1991)
Promised Heaven (1992)
Encore, Once More Encore! (19933)
Makarov (1994)
Passions (1995)
Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1996)
Prisoner of the Mountains (1997)
The Thief (1998)
Of Freaks and Men (1999)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (2000)

2001–present

His Wife's Diary (2001)
Taurus (2002)
The Cuckoo (2003)
The Return (2004)
Our Own (2005)
The 9th Company (2006)
The Island (2007)
Mongol (2008)
Stilyagi (2009)
Room and a Half (2010)
The Edge (2011)
Once Upon a Time There Lived a Simple Woman (2012)
Faust (2013)
The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2014)
Hard to Be a God (2015)
Dear Hans, Dear Pyotr [ru] (2016)
Paradise (2017)
Arrhythmia (2018)
Anna's War (2019)
A Frenchman (2020)
Dear Comrades! (2021)

v t e Russian submission for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Close to Eden (1992) Burnt by the Sun (1994) A Moslem (1995) Prisoner of the Mountains (1996) The Thief (1997) The Barber of Siberia (1998) Moloch (1999) His Wife's Diary (2000) The Romanovs: An Imperial Family (2001) House of Fools (2002) The Return (2003) Night Watch (2004) The Italian (2005) The 9th Company (2006) 12 (2007) Mermaid (2008) Ward No. 6 (2009) The Edge (2010) Burnt by the Sun 2 (2011) White Tiger (2012) Stalingrad (2013) Leviathan (2014) Sunstroke (2015) Paradise (2016) Loveless (2017) Sobibor (2018) Beanpole (2019) Dear Comrades! (2020) Unclenching the Fists (2021)

Russian submission for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film