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Overview

User Rating:
7.5/10   1,659 votes
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Director:
Andrei Kravchuk
Writer:
Andrei Romanov (writer)
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Release Date:
22 September 2005 (Russia) more
Genre:
Drama | Family more
Tagline:
In Russia, Every Orphan Longs for Adoption. Vanya Has Other Plans...To Find His Mother At All Costs more
Plot:
Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
6 wins more
User Comments:
young orphan faces life's difficulties and challenges to find who he really is. more (23 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Kolya Spiridonov ... Vanya Solntsev
Mariya Kuznetsova ... Madam
Nikolay Reutov ... Grisha
Jurij Ickov ... Headmaster
Denis Moiseenko ... Kolyan
Sasha Sirotkin ... Sery
Polina Vorobieva ... Nataha

Olga Shuvalova ... Irka
Dima Zemlyanko ... Anton
Dariya Lesnikova ... Mukhin's Mother
Rudolf Kuld ... Guard
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Vladimir Shipov ... Bloke
Andrei Yelizarov ... Timokha
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Итальянец (Russia)
The Italian (USA) (new title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some violence, sexual content, language and thematic issues.
Runtime:
90 min | Canada:99 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
Country:
Russia
Language:
Russian
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Company:
Lenfilm Studio more

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Trivia:
Russia's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006) more

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31 out of 34 people found the following comment useful.
young orphan faces life's difficulties and challenges to find who he really is., 28 January 2007
Author: marcellny from Mexico

this was one of the best movies i have seen in a long time. not only was kolya spiridov magnificent, every actor young and old were intense. the lyricism of this movie is simply magnificent. i felt the cold, the dampness, the starkness and disagreeing completely with someone else's comment on this movie, i found the score perfect. economical, to the point, letting us feel the story without suggesting it for us as Hollywood tends to do. also... directed superbly where the main character doesn't get cheap emotions out of us by making us 'cry' by crying. we suffer his plight a great deal more as he goes through the film just as is. superb, intricate, inspired. this film deserves great recognition and all the accolades a great movie should ever get. i recommend it greatly.

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