Based on A. Galych's play "Matrosskaya Tishina", "Papa" tells a story of a Jewish father who dreamed of seeing his son perform on a stage in front of huge audiences, he dreamed of seeing him as the greatest violinist of his time. To achieve the goal he taught his son Dodik how to play the violin from the yearly age. When Dodik grew up he left the small town he and his father lived in to study in the Moscow Conservatory leaving his past behind. But one day he has to choose either to loose his father or everything he has achieved.
Acting
Mashkov's volcanic father dominates every frame he's in
Score
Violin becomes character — beautiful and weaponized
Direction
Mashkov directs himself without vanity, mercilessly
Director
Vladimir Mashkov
Vladimir Mashkov
Abraham Schwartz
Egor Beroev
David Schwartz
Olga Krasko
Tanya
Anatoli Vasilyev
Chernyshov Ivan Kuzmich
Sergey Dreyden
Meyer Wolf
Andrey Smolyakov
Odintsov
Artur Smolyaninov
Lyonchik
Anna Astashkina
student at the hostel
Aleksandr Siguev
Olga Miroshnikova
Hana
Kseniya Lavrova-Glinka
Anatoli Vasilyev
Andrey Kuzichev
Славка Лебедев
Sergey Ugryumov
Nikolay Glinskiy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Matrosskaya Tishina was a notorious Moscow prison — the title whispers what the father never says about Jewish identity as its own confinement.
Mashkov cast himself after no actor would commit to Abraham's monstrous complexity; he feared the role so much he had to take it.
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