| His Wife's Diary | |
| Director: | Alexei Uchitel |
| Producer: | Alexander Golutva Natalia Smirnova Alexei Uchitel |
| Starring: | Andrei Smirnov Galina Tyunina Olga Budina Yevgeny Mironov |
| Music: | Leonid Desyatnikov |
| Cinematography: | Yuri Klimenko |
| Editing: | Elena Andreeva |
| Studio: | Rock Films |
| Runtime: | 110 minutes |
| Country: | Russia |
| Language: | Russian |
His Wife's Diary (Russian: Дневник его жены|Dnevnik ego zheny) is a 2000 Russian biographical film directed by Alexei Uchitel. It is a story about the last love affair of Ivan Bunin (played by Andrei Smirnov). It is set in French Riviera in the 1940s.
His Wife's Diary was awarded the Grand Prize of the Kinotavr Festival[1] and the 2000 Nika Award for Best Film, Best Male Actor (Smirnov) and Best Cinematography (Klimenko).[2] It was Russia's submission to the 73rd Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3] [4]
A tragic story of love and loneliness – this is the unknown life of the Russian writer Ivan Bunin. The love story that involved Bunin, his wife Vera, the young poet Galina Plotnikova, opera singer Marga Kovtun and literary man Leonid Gurov.