Evgeniya Kirpichnikova

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

On the morning of December 31, Alina receives the keys to her beloved's new apartment as a gift, but the idyll is ruined by a call from Valera's ex-wife, who was in a car accident. Valera goes to help out, and Alina goes out of town, where she meets her first love.