A Driver for Vera (2004)

Original title

Водитель для Веры

Directed by

Pavel Chukhray

Genre

drama film

Country

Ukraine, Russia

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

16+

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 47 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man becomes a driver for a Soviet general and his family in 1962 Sevastopol. He gets drawn into their personal conflicts and a tense romantic relationship with the general's daughter Vera.

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What happens

A Driver for Vera (Russian: «Водитель для Веры», romanized: Voditel dlya Very) is a 2004 Ukrainian-Russian co-produced psychological drama film from 2004, set in 1962 Sevastopol, Ukraine, directed and written by Russian Pavel Chukhrai. The film won numerous Russian awards including Best Film at the Sochi Film Festival. The film's two-country origin resulted in the film being rejected as Ukraine's entry for the Academy Awards Best Foreign Film category for 2005, due to a rule which states, "[T]he submitting country must certify that creative talent of that country exercised artistic control of the film." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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