One Man Dies a Million Times
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Directed byJessica Oreck
StarringAlyssa Lozovskaya, Maksim Blinov, Vladimir Koshevoy
CinematographySean Price Williams
| One Man Dies a Million Times | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jessica Oreck |
| Starring | Alyssa Lozovskaya, Maksim Blinov, Vladimir Koshevoy |
| Cinematography | Sean Price Williams |
Release dates | |
Running time | 93 minutes |
| Countries | United States, Russia |
One Man Dies a Million Times is a 2019 Russian-language drama film with science-fiction elements directed by American filmmaker Jessica Oreck that premiered at the 2019 South by Southwest Film Festival.
One Man Dies a Million Times transposes to the near future the true story of the world's first seed bank, the N. I. Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources, during the Siege of Leningrad, during which scientists preserved a massive inventory of edible seeds in the name of biodiversity while facing starvation.[3][4][5]
In the film, a young couple, biologists Alyssa and Maksim are struggling to preserve the seed bank of the Vavilov Institute in a starving city of Leningrad of the war-torn Russia.