“The Singers” filmmaker Sam A. Davis had read the 19th-century short story of the same name but “I was a little bored by it. I kept nodding off,” he admits, adding that it was late at night when he read it.
As he made his way through the dense pages that chronicle a night at a rural pub with its local patrons, Davis says, “I realized that the writer had played a trick on me, where I was lulled to sleep in this sleepy, Russian pub, and then got completely caught off guard by this unexpected moment of community and connection.”
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