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Director:
Aleksei German Ml.
Writers:
Oleg Antonov (writer)
Aleksei German Ml. (writer)
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Release Date:
27 October 2005 (Russia) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Garpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations more
User Comments:
An extraordinary visual movie.. more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Yevgeny Pronin ... Andrei
Danila Kozlovsky ... Nikolai
Dmitri Vladimirov ... Shust
Aleksandr Bukovski ... Tolsty (The Fat)
Chulpan Khamatova ... Anitsa
Yuriy Kutsenko ... Aleksandr Blok
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Aleksandr Bykovsky
Ruslan Ibragimov ... Torgash
Yevgeni Kharlanov
Fyodor Lavrov ... Soldier
Leonid Mozgovoy
Pavel Romanov ... Uncle
Iamze Sukhitashvili ... Vita
Dmitry Vladimirov
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Гарпастум (Russia)
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Runtime:
116 min | 118 min
Country:
Russia
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Hungary:16
Company:
Lenfilm Studio more

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11 out of 13 people found the following comment useful:-
An extraordinary visual movie.., 11 December 2005
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Author: Kris from Bratislava,Slovakia

The very first moment I saw Garpastum I couldn't avoid thinking of other big directors: Michalkov and Tarkovskij. A story of a nation, a state at the moment of its(re)birth told through a simple story of boys and their compassion for soccer. (Garpastum comes from a Latin word "harpastum": a ball-game from which soccer origins.) The story is strangely both historical and ahistorical - it seems it could take place no matter when and where. In fact, it is not so. A small hints given in conversation (Gavrilo going to Sarajevo, a lion that escaped from the ZOO, socialist revolution..) create an exact time frame that is necessarily connected with the location of St. Petersburg. Taking place in some other time it would most probably lose its charm. The extraordinary capacity of Alexey German for capturing this era and its mood pleases the eye. Every picture, every scene is filmed very thoughtfully, keeping its poetry without losing rhythm and becoming only a slide of photographs with nothing to say.

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