Taurus (film)

Taurus
Film poster
Directed by	Alexander Sokurov
Written by	Yuri Arabov
Produced by	Vladimir Persov
Starring	Leonid Mozgovoy
Cinematography	Alexander Sokurov
Edited by	Leda Semyonova
Music by	Andrey Sigle Sergei Rachmaninov
Production companies	Lenfilm State Committee for Cinematography Ministry of Culture (Russia)
Release date	16 May 2001 (2001-05-16)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Taurus (Russian: Телец, romanized: Telets) is a 2001 Russian biographical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov, portraying Vladimir Lenin. It is the second film in a trilogy by director Aleksandr Sokurov that began with Moloch about Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler and continued with The Sun about Japanese emperor Hirohito.^[1] It was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Plot[]

In the face of illness, the historical personality turns out to be simply a man powerless to change anything not only in the fate of a country that is not yet under his control, but also in the fate of his doomed awkward family, and in the fate of his decaying personality.

Cast[]

• as Vladimir Lenin
• as Krupskaya
• as Joseph Stalin
• as Sister
• as Doctor
• Nikolai Ustinov as Pacoly

Awards[]

At the 2001 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards the film was awarded the prizes for Best Film, Best Director (Alexander Sokurov), Best Female Actor (Mariya Kuznetsova), Best Male Actor (Leonid Mozgovoy), Best Screenplay (Yuri Arabov), Best Director of Photography (Alexander Sokurov, Aleksei Rodionov) and Best Art Direction (Natalia Kochergina).^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• Taurus at IMDb

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