• Run time: 39 minutes
• Original title: Иля + Маруся
• Country of origin: Russia

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Synopsis:

At the core of this poetically edited assemblage are the love letters between the writer Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and his wife, Maria Tasarenko (Marusya), recently published by their daughter, Alexandra. The film uses beautiful, historic black and white footage, scenes from Russian film history, superbly chosen background music, as well as countless photographs made by Ilya Ilf himself, to bring to life this exchange between Marusya, who lived in Odessa, and Ilya, who worked in Moscow. Ilya Ilf and his co-author Evgeny Petrov wrote sharp satirical books such as ”The Twelve Chairs“ (1928) and ”The Golden Calf“ (1931), which were hugely successful throughout the USSR.
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• Director:

  Vladimir Nepevny

• Writer(s):

  Vladimir Nepevny

• Producer(s):

  Alexandr Radov, Irina Vasilyeva

• Director of Photography:

  Gricoriy Leonov

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