Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.
Sergei Dovlatov
David
Elena Dovlatova
Katya Dovlatova
Iosif Brodskiy
Anton Kuznetsov
Actress - Dovlatov's friend
Young editor
Sholom Shvarts - artist
Semyon Aleksandrovich
Nora Dovlatova - Sergei Dovlatov mother
Deputy director of the plant
Factory Newspaper Editor
Editor of Literary Magazine
Finnish tourist
Dovlatov's friend
Guest at Semen's dacha
Dovlatov friend
Armenian girl
Finnish writer
Pushkin
Dostoevsky
Natasha Rostova
Leonid Brezhnev
