Beanpole (film)
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Beanpole is a 2019 Russian drama film directed and co-written by Kantemir Balagov. It premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, Balagov won the Un Certain
Beanpole
Svetlana Alexievich
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Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich is a Belarusian investigative journalist, essayist and oral historian who writes in Russian. She was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic wri
Beanpole (film)
…selected as the Russian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. The film was inspired by Svetlana Alexievich's book War's Unwomanly Face. At the end of the Second World War, Iya Sergeyevna, a tall woman nicknamed "Beanpole" (Дылда), works as a nurse in a…
Alexievich in 2024
Alexievich as artist-in-residence at Bavarian Villa Waldberta in the 1990s
Alexievich in 2013