A Translator
- Original title
- Un traductor
- Year
- 2018
- Running time
- 107 min.
- Country
- Cuba
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Rodrigo Santoro
- Maricel Álvarez
- Milda Gecaite
- Nataliya Rodina
- Aleksandra Maslennikova
- Genadijs Dolganovs
- Yoandra Suárez
- Jorge Carlos Perez Herrera
- Eslinda Núñez
- Osvaldo Doimeadiós
- Nikita Semenov
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Cuba-Canada;
- Genre
- Drama | 1980s
- Synopsis
- In the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Malin, a Russian literature professor at the University of Havana, is separated from his family and job when he is assigned to work as a translator between Cuban doctors and children arriving from the USSR to receive medical treatment for radiation poisoning. Torn from the abstract world of academia and forced into the relentlessly real world of medicine, Malin must find ways to cope in order to stop his growing depression.
- Awards
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2019: Forque Awards: Nominated for Best Hispano American Film2018: Sundance Film Festival: World Cinema Dramatic Competition2018: Shanghai International Film Festival: Best Director2018: Fenix Awards: Nominated for Best Actor (Santoro) & First Work2020: Forqué Awards: nominated to Best Latin American Film.
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