Backdrop image for movie The Geographer Drank His Globe Away

The Geographer Drank His Globe Away (2013)

Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

  • Drama

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Konstantin KhabenskiyKonstantin KhabenskiyViktor Sluzhkin
  • Photo of Elena LyadovaElena LyadovaNadya
  • Photo of Aleksandr RobakAleksandr RobakBudkin
  • Photo of Agrippina SteklovaAgrippina SteklovaRoza Borisovna
  • Photo of Andrey PrytkovAndrey PrytkovGradusov
  • Photo of Anfisa ChernykhAnfisa ChernykhMasha
  • Photo of Evgeniya KregzhdeEvgeniya KregzhdeSashenka
  • Photo of Alla MezentsevaAlla Mezentseva
  • Photo of Evgenia BrikEvgenia BrikKira
  • Photo of Anna UkolovaAnna UkolovaBranch

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