Synopsis

With his unique voice and his highly poetic lyrics, this singer-songwriter and poet became for many ‘the Voice of Russia’ and his marriage to French actress Marina Vlady finally gained him international cult status. But Vysotsky was a critic of the **system**. He lived a restless and wild life: racing through Moscow in his Mercedes, wearing hippie clothes, smoking all the time, often drunk and taking drugs.

Director

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  • Matthias Schmidt
  • Born in 1965, Matthias Schmidt has been working as a director and writer since 2002. He won the Adolf-Grimme Prize for his 2004 work Wienerlepublick: Theater in East Germany, and in 2009, he won the Best Documentary Award at the Banff World Television Festival and the Gold Award at the Houston International Film Festival for The Miracle of Leipzig.