The Lover
Любовник
(2002)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 100mins
Director: Valery Todorovsky
Cast: Oleg Yankovsky, Sergei Garmash, Andrei Smirnov, Vera Voronkova
The Lover is a film, which explores the complexities of grief. It tells the heartbreaking story of two men’s love for the same woman. One of them is a University Professor, the other an ex-military man. A common tragedy unites these two completely different people, who did not even know each other, when the woman they were apparently both in love with dies of a sudden heart attack. The film won the Russian Guild of Film Critics Award for Best Actor (Oleg Yankovsky), the Jury Prix for Best Script and Best Photography at the San Sebastian International Film Festival and screened at numerous festivals around the world including the 46th Regus London Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.
