Bury Me Behind the Baseboard

Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (Russian: Похорoните меня за плинтусом, romanized: Pokhoronite menya za plintusom) is a 2009 Russian psychological drama film directed by Sergey Snezhkin, based on the autobiographical story of the same name by Pavel Sanayev [ru].^[1][2]

Bury Me Behind the Baseboard
Film poster
Directed by	Sergey Snezhkin
Written by	Sergey Snezhkin Pavel Sanayev
Produced by	Vladimir Zheleznikov Mikhail Litvak Leonid Litvak
Starring	Aleksandr Drobitko Svetlana Kryuchkova Aleksei Petrenko Maria Shukshina
Cinematography	Vladislav Gurtchin
Edited by	Marina Vasilieva
Music by	Svyatoslav Kurashov
Production companies	Globus Film Studio Ministry of Culture
Distributed by	RUSCICO
Release date	3 December 2009 (2009-12-03)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Budget	$1 million

Plot

Eight-year-old Sasha Savelyev lives with his grandmother and actor-grandfather. The boy is not given to his mother. The grandmother takes care of her often ill grandson and brings him up with crazy love, which gradually turns into a real tyranny.

Cast

• Aleksandr Drobitko as Grandson
• Svetlana Kryuchkova as Grandma
• Aleksei Petrenko as Granddad
• Maria Shukshina as Mother
• Konstantin Vorobyov as Tolik
• Valery Kukhareshin as Aaron Moiseevich, homeopath

Production

Actresses Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Elena Sanayeva and Era Ziganshina claimed the role of grandmother.^[3]

Svetlana Kryuchkova claims that many of the film's scenes, which made it closer to the book, were cut at the behest of the producers.^[4][5]

Accolades

Winner of the 2009 Nika Award in the categories "Best Actress" (Svetlana Kryuchkova) and "Best Supporting Actress" (Maria Shukshina).^[6]