Time of a Dancer

Time of a Dancer (Russian: Время танцора, romanized: Vremya tantsora), also translated as Dancer's Time,^[1] is a 1998 Russian war drama film directed by Vadim Abdrashitov.^[2][3][4][5]

Time of a Dancer
Russian: Время танцора
Directed by	Vadim Abdrashitov
Written by	Aleksandr Mindadze
Produced by	Sergei Bayev
Starring	Andrey Egorov Yuri Stepanov Sergey Garmash Zurab Kipshidze Chulpan Khamatova
Cinematography	Yuriy Nevsky Anatoly Susekov
Edited by	Roza Rogatkina
Music by	Viсtor Lebedev
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1998 (1998)
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Plot

The soldiers have returned from a war. While they may have won on the battlefront but, they have lost too, because they have forgot how to live in peace. But the war did not destroy the most important thing in them: their will to live.^[6]

Cast

• Andrey Egorov as Andrei Podobed
• Yuri Stepanov as Valeriy Belosheikin
• Sergey Garmash as Fiedel
• Zurab Kipshidze as Temur
• Chulpan Khamatova as Katya
• Svetlana Kopylova as Larisa, Valeriy's wife
• Vera Voronkova as Tamara
• Natalya Loskutova as Olga Pavlovna
• Sergey Nikonenko as Fyodor
• Mikhail Bogdasarov as Said^[7]

Screenings

Time of a Dancer was screened in the Stalker Human Rights Film Festival's regional presentation in Rostov-on-Don in 2010, where Abdrashitov engaged in discussion about the film with the audience.^[8]

Awards

• Nika Award (1997): Best Screenplay (Aleksandr Mindadze), Best Male Supporting Role (Zurab Kipshidze)^[9]
• Kinotavr (1998) Grand Prix^[10][2]
• Locarno Festival (1998) Special Jury Prize