Essay: Doomed to Run
June 6, 2026
RU
✓ Released 13 days ago
Documentary
About
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.
Movie Info
Status: Released
Director: Gadzhimurad Efendiev
Top Cast
Roman Cherpak
self
Shura Alkhasova
self
Petr Shevchenko
self
Elena Shevchenko
self
Gadzhimurad Efendiev
self
Leyla Efendieva
self