Set in 1945 Leningrad, Kantemir Balagov’s extraordinary “Beanpole” is a film about life amid the ruins. It’s a story about carrying on after the unimaginable, ...

Kantemir Balagov is repping Russia for the International Feature Film Oscar for the first time, with his second film, Beanpole. The story of the plight of two women in a devastated post-WWII ...

Beanpole is not a film about interpretation or understanding, but survival. The film takes place in 1945, right at the end of the war, in Leningrad, where the titular character ...

Beanpole is my second feature film. It is very important to me that my story takes place in 1945. My heroes, like the city they live in, are mangled by a horrible war.

Beanpole is currently streaming online as part of Film Lab's Virtual Cinema series on VOD. Tickets can be purchased here. With its juiced-up emerald and burnt-red interiors, all captured by a ...

An immaculately color-coded, visually resplendent serving of European art-house severity, “Beanpole” brings its sharp performances and even sharper production design to a landscape wholly ...

‘Beanpole’: Film Review | Cannes 2019. Premiering in Un Certain Regard, Russian director Kantemir Balagov's 'Beanpole' revolves around two women ravaged by World War II.

Having hailed from Alexander Sokurov’s directing school, Russian auteur Kantemir Balagov made a name for himself on the international film stage with his 2017 debut feature Closeness, which screened ...

Beanpole premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes this year and brought Balagov the section’s best director prize. The film was released in Russia on June 20 and grossed $428,000.

Beanpole or Dylda is a Russian feature film shot in St. Petersburg. It was theatrically released a little more than a year ago. It is available for home-viewing on DVD and Blu-ray, as well as on ...

"Beanpole," which world premiered at Cannes, has been selected as Russia's submission for best international feature film at the Oscars. Continue to Variety SKIP AD.

An immaculately color-coded, visually resplendent serving of European art-house severity, “Beanpole” brings its sharp performances and even sharper production design to a landscape wholly ...