Retour à Kotelnitch (2003)
A film ‘twin’ to the novel My Life as a Russian Novel, this documentary charts Carrère’s journey to Kotelnitch, a town some 800 km east of Moscow, as he investigates what happened to a Hungarian POW, and then the young Ania. Through exploring the lives of others the writer finds the courage to tell his own story.
- Date of release
- 2003-08-30
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Emmanuel Carrère
Interesting facts
Back to Kotelnich is a 2003 French documentary film directed by Emmanuel Carrère. It is based on three visits Carrère made to the Russian town Kotelnich during a period of two years, from which he tells stories about the 20th century and his own family. Carrère was already an established writer and Back to Kotelnich was his debut as a film director.
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