PREMIERE OF DAVIDIANTS FILM ABOUT DOVLATOV HELD IN MOSCOW

As reported by Yerkramas newspaper, November 10 the premiere screening of Intimate Town documentary of Estonian film director Christina Davidiants was held in Moscow. The same day the film was shown for the first time on the Estonian TV. The picture is devoted to the Tallinn period of life of writer Sergey Dovlatov of Armenian origin and is based on chapters of the Compromise story, which describes real events and where actual personages appear. Just in 1972-1976 the writer lives in the Estonian capital and worked in Sovetskaya Estonia newspaper. The film director managed to meet many heroes of the Dovlatov “compromises”, as well as with friends and colleagues of the writer. The film is based on the contrast of the Dovlatov text to what the eyewitnesses told. RFE/RL recordings of Dovlatov reading passages from the Compromise are used in the film. In summer 2004 the Intimate Town was included in the competition shows of the Moscow International Festival, participated the other day in the “Cinema of Russia, CIS and Baltic states” in Stuttgart. It was also awarded a jury special prize at Golden Apricot cinema festival in Armenia. The premiere in Moscow was held with the support of the Armenian Diaspora.