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Roots

The film takes place today in a small southern town on the territory of the former USSR. The main character, Edik Letov, helps people to look for relatives. He finds them in Canada, Israel, Switzerland - For Edik, this is business, and business is reliable. If the real relatives are not, Edik will arrange a replacement. And everything seems to be going well in his small company. But since his clients are lonely people, they pour out so much love and warmth on their foreign guests that they cannot even think about their imagination - and they get imbued with a reciprocal feeling .

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Cast & Crew See All

Konstantin Khabenskiy
Edik
Leonid Kanevskiy
Baroukh
Sergey Garmash
Yacha

Awards

  • 2005 - Grand Prize of the Festival - Full-Length Film - winner
  • 2006 - Nika - Best Supporting Actor - nominated
  • 2005 - Best Screenplay - - winner
  • 2005 - Special Mention - - winner

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