Essay: Doomed to Run

Name: Essay: Doomed to Run
Genre: Documentary

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Documentary

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Deeply personal cinematic journey between two worlds—Catholic Venice and Islamic Dagestan. Inspired by Joseph Brodsky’s essay *Watermark* and Merab Mamardashvili’s lectures on those “doomed to run,” I craft a film-essay about identity, the ache of existing between cultures, and the endless search for home. Through fragments of daily life and raw, intimate phone calls with my mother, I try to make sense of living on the border—between faiths, eras, wars, and pandemics.

Crew

Director Gadzhimurad Efendiev
Director of Photography Gadzhimurad Efendiev

Cast

Roman Cherpak
self
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Shura Alkhasova
self
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Petr Shevchenko
self
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Elena Shevchenko
self
Gadzhimurad Efendiev
self
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Leyla Efendieva
self

Crew

Director — Gadzhimurad Efendiev
Director of Photography — Gadzhimurad Efendiev

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