1999俄罗斯传记
Parfenov`s documentary for the centenary of the great Russian and American classic. It consists of stories told by people who knew Vladimir Nabokov very well: Elena Nabokova-Sikorskaya, "beloved sister of beloved brother" as Nabokov called her, and Dmitry, Nabokov`s son. Nabokov was a bilingual genius of two literatures, which is an exceptional phenomenon. The film was shot at Cornell University, where Nabokov lectured for a long time as an American professor of Russian literature, in the St. Petersburg mansion, in the Rozhdestveno estate, the place of the writer`s happy childhood, and in his hotel suite in the Swiss town of Montreux, where Nabokov spent the last sixteen years of his live.