PREMIERE OF FILM ABOUT DOVLATOV TAKES PLACE IN MOSCOW

MOSCOW, November 29 (Noyan Tapan). The premiere of the “Intimate City”
documentary of Estonian film-maker Kristina Davidiants tookplace in
Moscow on November 10. The same day the premiere was also shown via
the Estonian TV.

According to the “Yerkramas” (“Krai”) newspaper, the film is devoted
to the Tallinn period of the life of Sergey Dovlatov, a writer of
Armenian origin, and based on the chapters of the “Compromise” story,
in which the real events are described and real personages act.

In 1972-1976, the writer lived in the Estonian capital and worked for
the “Soviet Estonia” newspaper. The film-maker succeeded in meeting
with many of characters of Dovlatov’s “Compromise”, as well as with
the writer’s friends and colleagues. The film is constructed on the
contrasts of Dovlatov’s text and the telling of the observes. The
records of RFE/RL, in whose air Dovlatov read the extracts of
“Compromise”, are used.

In 2004, “Intimate city” was included into the competitive show of the
Moscow International Film-Festival, participated in the Days of “Films
of Russia, the CIS and Baltic States” in Stuttgart, received a special
reward of the jury of “Gold Apricot” during the film-festival in
Armenia.

The premiere took place in Moscow with the support of the Armenian
Diaspora.