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51% Critic Match
My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan
“Historical truth is composed of the silence of the dead”
5.1 / 10• 2016• 1h 50m•NR• Ukrainian
Drama
Storyline
1917, the Crimea. Fanny Kaplan is blind and out of prison. She starts an affair with her doctor, Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov. which ends unexpectedly when she runs into her first lover: the terrorist who she went to prison for and who is now in the Russian secret police. Soon after, she is accused of an assassination attempt on Dimitry's brother: Vladimir Ulyanov Lenin.
Cast & Crew
Kateryna Molchanova
Fanny Kaplan
Lead
Ivan Brovin
Viktor Garskiy
Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi
Dmitriy Ilyich Ulyanov
VT
Victoria Trofimenko
каторжанка
NN
Natalya Nikulenko
Надія Крупська
Aleksey Devotchenko
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Iryna Tsilyk
Political convict
Roman Shyrman
Hirshman
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Olena Demianenko's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. My Grandmother Fanny Kaplan is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
