The Stringer (1998)
Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present.
Director: Paweł Pawlikowski
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Anna Friel as |
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Sergei Bodrov Jr. as |
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Vladimir Ilin as |
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Robert Knepper as |
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Anna Kamenkova as |
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Leonid Kuravlyov as |
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Anna Yanovskaya as |
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Nina Avetisova as |
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Vera Obolonkina as |
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Aleksei Shevchenkov as |
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Aleksandr Esaulov as |
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Lyubov Sokolova as |
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Denis Karasyov as |
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Aleksandr Pyatkov as |
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Natalya Rogozhkina as |
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Pavel Vinnik as |
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Valeriy Ivakov as |
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Maksim Litovchenko as |
| Directing | Paweł Pawlikowski | Director |
| Sound | Zdzisław Szostak | Music |
| Production | Charles Pattinson | Executive Producer |
| Editing | William Diver | Editor |
| Production | Waldemar Król | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Witold Stok | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marina Ananyeva | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Małgorzata Obłoza | Costume Design |
| Production | David M. Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Production | George Faber | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Gennadiy Ostrovskiy | Writer |
| Production | Fiona Morham | Producer |
| Writing | Paweł Pawlikowski | Writer |
| Art | Vladimir Murzin | Production Design |
| Art | Jacek Turewicz | Production Design |
| Directing | Yuri Kryuchkov | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Rodrigo Gutierrez | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Sarkisova | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Natalya Krimenskaya | Casting Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elena Bogatyreva | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Anastasiya Biryukova | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Evgeniy Degtyarenko | Assistant Director |