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 |
| Production | Fiona Morham | Producer |
| Production | George Faber | Executive Producer |
| Production | Waldemar Król | Executive Producer |
| Production | Charles Pattinson | Executive Producer |
| Production | David M. Thompson | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Gennadiy Ostrovskiy | Writer |
| Writing | Paweł Pawlikowski | Writer |
| Camera | Witold Stok | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Zdzisław Szostak | Music |
| Art | Vladimir Murzin | Production Design |
| Art | Jacek Turewicz | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marina Ananyeva | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Małgorzata Obłoza | Costume Design |
| Editing | William Diver | Editor |
| Production | Natalya Krimenskaya | Casting Director |
| Directing | Yuri Kryuchkov | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Rodrigo Gutierrez | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Evgeniy Degtyarenko | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Anastasiya Biryukova | Assistant Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Irina Sarkisova | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elena Bogatyreva | Makeup Artist |