This is a film about the unknown private side of Ivan Bunin’s life – the great Russian author, the Nobel Prize winner for 1933.
His Wife’s Diary is a film about solitude. That’s what’s most important. Paradoxically, as it may seem, this topic is extremely vital because a great number of people today are lonely. The film is imbued with this feeling, it is in the air all the time. I wanted people to feel sympathy for everyone of my characters. This is what I was trying to achieve. Ultimately, Bunin’s dog is his only friend, with whom he shares his bed and to whom the writer reads his manuscripts at night.
Alexei Uchitel
Script: Dunya Smirnova
Cinematography: Yuri Klimenko
Cast: Andrei Smirnov, Galina Tyunina, Olga Budina, Evgeni Mironov, Elena Morozova, Dani Kogan, Tatiana Moskvina,
Sergey Vinogradov
Coproduction: ROK STUDIO–Russia, A.M. STUDIO–Bulgaria
With the support of Bulgarian National Film Center, GOSKINO
Duration: 110 min
