Boris Ryzhy

 

Poetry, the Russian mafia, the Perestroika, love, and suicide: all of that comes together at the heart of Boris Ryzhy and, inevitably, at that of Boris Ryzhy, Aliona van der Horst’s documentary on the life and work of one of the most important Russian poets from the late twentieth century. "All my poems are about love and death... but despite everything, I'm happy with my wife and son", Ryzhy once declared, and, soon after, at 26, he hanged himself. That confusing, mostly undecipherable ghost [...]

Duration

60 min

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