1129 STO SOLDAT I DVE DEVUSHKI (A HUNDRED SOLDIERS AND TWO GIRLS)
1989, 100 min., color, “Ladoga”
Drama
Written and directed by: Sergei Michaelyan, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Kirill Kuzmin
Cast: Maya Meldere, Alexander Saiko, Alexander Timoshkin, Nikolai Ustinov, Alexei Yasulovich, Vladimir Polyakov, Vladimir Yavorski
World War II. The main character is Anya Bulavina, a medical orderly. Contacts with her, her generosity of spirit and ready sympathy support the soldiers' faith in their being expected and loved back home...
1130 TORMOZHENIYE V NEBESAKH (THE BLOCKING IN HEAVEN)
1989, 81 min., color, “Ladoga”
Tragic farce
Director: Viktor Buturlin, screenplay: Roman Solntsev with input from Roman Buturlin, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Leonid Izakov
Cast: Viktor Smirnov, Nina Ruslanova, Yuri Kuznetsov, Viktor Tsepayev, Lev Borisov, Igor Nikitin, Yuri Mazhuga, Boris Scherbakov, Alexander Fatyushin, Tamara Kolesnikova, Larisa Leonova
After seeing off the General Secretary of the Central Communist Party Committee departing from the regional seat, Makhonin, First Secretary of the Regional Party Committee, gave his team a dressing-down...
It was just his luck that all of it was recorded by a TV camera operating in the automatic mode...
The lady director thought it a sensational piece, but getting it over to Moscow proved far from easy!
1131 UBEGAYUSHCHIY AVGUST (THE ESCAPING AUGUST)
1989, 78 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Dmitry Dolinin, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, Anatoly Efros, camera: Lev Kolganov, production designer: Mikhail Gerasimov, misic: Gennadi Banschikov, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Anzhelika Nevolina, Alexander Filippenko, Svetlana Gaitan, Nikolai Ivanovski, Alexei Luschin, Lyubov Malinovskaya
Loosely based on “The Phrygian Cornflowers, a short story by Georgy Semyonov.
It so happened that Kraskov, a middle-aged single man, after one of his drinking sprees discovered a strange nice-looking young woman in his bed.
It turns out that the previous day he prevented her from leaving for Odessa for her vacation. To atone his guilt, Kraskov offers his lady to take a car trip...
1132 FA-MINOR (F MINOR)
1989, 29 min., color, ”Ladoga”
Fantasy
Written and directed by: Andrei Chernykh, camera: Alexander Ustinov, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Nikolai Pavlov, Ingeborge Dapkunaite, Marina Krutikova, Oleg Lomanski, Mark Galesnik, Yuliya Sobolevskaya, Sergei Maltsev, Viktor Chernykh, T. Abolin
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The film was awarded the Premium for the Best Debut at the International Film Festival in Clermont Ferraine, France (1990).
1133 FILIPP TRAUM (PHILIP TRAUM)
1989, 2 parts, 137 min., color, ”Petropol”
Adventure
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Igor Adamatsky, Yevgeny Schmidt, camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Nataliya Kochergina, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Galina Lukina
Cast: Gabriel Vorobyev, Philip Kozlov, Dima Suvorov, Dima Mamontov, Iya Parulava, Yevgeny Vesnik, Alexei Zubarev, Yuri Yarvet, Yelena Safonova
Loosely based on “The Mysterious Stranger”, a story by Mark Twain.
The Middle Ages. The rule of the sombre inquisition...
Unexpectedly, none other but Satan Junior appears in a small European town in the guise of handsome young man...
1134 FUFLO (THE FAKE)
1989, 94 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”
Criminal drama
Director: Alexei Lebedev, screenplay: Kirill Laskari, camera: Vladimir Brylyakov, production designer: Sergei Kokovkin, misic: Merab Gagnidze, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Andrei Rudenski, Alexander Romantsov, Lyubov Polischuk, Tatyana Manevskaya, Yelena Aminova
The main character is a womanizer conquering virtually any woman he meets. His erotic adventures are tightly interwoven with the criminal traits inspiring his queer friendship — enmity with a criminal drug addict...
1135 ETO BYLO U MORYA (IT HAPPENED AT THE SEASIDE)
1989, 97 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”
Drama
Director: Ayan Shakhmaliyeva, screenplay: Viktor Klykov, camera: Sergei Yurizditski, production designer: Georgy Kropachyev, misic: Alexander Kneifel, sound: Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Nina Ruslanova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Nina Turbina, Katya Politova, Danya Mishin, Vanya Kuzmin, Anya Yekaterininskaya, Ira Annina, Valentina Titova, Nikolai Lavrov, Yevgeny Zuyev, Valentina Voilkova, Valentina Ananyina, Alla Mescheryakova
The main characters are girls who are charges of a specialized orphanage for children with spinal cord afflictions. The kids' physical energy is bursting to expend itself in the painfully rigid inter-relationship diagram...
Thus, it turns out that friendship is more like enmity, while love works out as treachery...
1136 YA SLUZHIL V OKHRANE STALINA, ILI OPYT DOCUMENTALNOY MIFOLOGIYI (I SERVED WITH STALIN'S GUARDS, OR A STUDY IN DOCUMENTARY MYTHOLOGY)
1989, 75 min., color, “Ladoga”
Publicistic documentary
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Yuri Klepikov, camera: Sergei Sidorov, production designer: Vladimir Solovyev, misic: Alexander Kneifel, sound: Galina Gorbonosova
A narrative spun by A. Rybin, retired Major with the People's Commissariat of Domestic Affairs
1137 ANEKDOTY (THE JOKES)
1990, 78 min., color, “Neva”, “Lenfilm”
Comedy
Director: Vladimir Titov, screenplay: Vladimir Vardunas, Alexander Kuznetsov, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production designers: Vladimir Svetozarov, Edward Isayev, misic: Nikolai Fomenko, sound: Nataliya Avanesova
Cast: Alexander Abdulov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Nina Usatova, Yakov Stepanov, Andrei Vasilyev, Boris Sokolov, Yevgeny Filatov, Vadim Lobanov
The talented joke teller Kutuzov, a patient in a lunatic asylum, is holding discussions on actual issues with Marx, Stalin, Brezhnev... Vasily Ivanovich Kutuzov absorbed jokes at his mother's breast, carrying them through his long-suffering life. And wherever fate takes him, he will remain faithful to his talent in spite of any threats, bans or repressions, for nothing can possibly extinguish a people's ability to laugh and joke.
1138 BAKENBARDY (THE WHISKERS)
1990, 94 min., color, ”Golos”, “Leninterfilm”, “Lenfilm”
Satirical pamphlet
Director: Yuri Mamin, screenplay: Vyacheslav Leikin, camera: Sergei Nekrasov, production designer: Pavel Parkhomenko, misic: Alexei Zalivalov, sound: Leonid Gavrichenko
Cast: Viktor Sukhorukov, Alexander Medvedev, Arthur Vaha, Alexander Lykov, Viktor Mikhailov, Olga Alabysheva, Yuri Mamin
Two whiskered young people carrying canes and wearing the “winged” coats of the kind favored by Pushkin disembarked in a modern provincial city, where punks, metal fans, rockers, and other informal youth groups were playing their pranks at large. The whiskered eccentric guys were made fun of. Nobody could imagine that the queer pair would soon gain local popularity and influence...
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The film was awarded the FIPRESSI Premium at the International Film Festival in San Sebastiano, Spain (1990).
1139 DUKHOV DEN (WHIT MONDAY)
1990, 110 min., color, “Golos”, “Lenfilm”
Mystical drama
Director: Sergei Selyanov, screenplay: Mikhail Konovalchuk, Sergei Selyanov, camera: Sergei Astakhov, production designer: Viktor Ivanov, misic: Yuri Shevchuk, sound: Kirill Kuzmin
Cast: Yuri Shevchuk, Borya Golyatkin, Yuri Demich, Sulev Sujk, Angelica Nevolina, Stanislav Landgraf
Ivan Khristoforov is a creative person with the characteristic bright luminous moments and break-throughs. His ability to cause explosions is a metaphor used to describe the sensual contacts between his tragic, passionate nature and the surrounding world. He yearns to break out of the burned-out mythological space that is Russia's dwelling place and discover his own place in the endless succession of generations replacing one another in the boundless Russian plain. Ivan Khristoforov tries all the classical ways of gaining freedom: escape into himself, abroad, into his childhood, “among the people”...
1140 ZIMNYAYA VISHNYA — DVA (THE WINTER CHERRY -2)
1990, 87 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”
Melodrama
Director: Igor Maslennikov, screenplay: Vladimir Valutski, camera: Vladimir Brylyakov, production designer: Natalya Kochergina, misic: Vladimir Dashkevich, sound: Alexander Gruzdev
Cast: Vitaly Solomin, Yelena Safonova, Irina Miroshnichenko, Irina Klimova, Nina Ruslanova, Larisa Udovichenko, Viktor Avilov
In the sequel, the lonely, single main character of the first “Zimnyaya Vishnya” (“The Winter Cherry”) picture is happily settled: wife of a respectable American businessman, mother of a charming five-year-old daughter...
For her former lover Vadim, the clock seems to have stopped. Every morning he duly makes breakfast for his spouse; he obediently makes love to the young, prematurely developed Sveta nicknamed Slonik — a reasonably pragmatic and selfless creature, yet, given a chance, quite willing to take the spineless Dashkov in hand. He is forever listening to his friends advising him not to miss his chance. But it is not a lost chance that matters; what matters is that this person is no longer able or willing to look for any.
1141 NOVAYA SHAKHEREZADA (THE NEW SHAKHERIZADA)
1990, 2 parts, 125 min., color, ”Petropol”, “Lenfilm”, commissioned by Gosteleradio, USSR
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Nikitin, screenplay: Valery Popov, camera: Fyedor Tokmakov, production designer: Vladimir Amelchenkov, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Konstantin Zarin
Cast: Nadezhda Rezon, Vladimir Baranov, Alexander Slastin, Svetlana Smirnova, Natalya Vilkina, Igor Erelt, Alexander Dolski
A dramatic story of a provincial girl coming to a big city under the municipal limited hiring quota.
1142 KOGDA SVYATIYE MARSHIRUYUT (WHEN THE SAINST MARCH)
1990, 90 min., color, ”Golos”, “Lenfilm”
Musical
Director: Vladimir Vorobyev, screenplay: Alexander Zhitinski, camera: Heinrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: David Goloschyekin, sound: Mikhail Victorov
Cast: Vera Alentova, Vladimir Steklov, Emanuel Vitorgan, Alexander Dolski, Alexander Khochinski, David Goloschyekin, Igor Dmitriyev, Alla Balter, Dmitry Vorobyev
The picture is focused on jazz musicians, featuring a meeting of those who were young in the 1960-s. In their past they have a common problem: the imprisonment of an orchestra member who assumed the fault for the publication of a unofficial magazine “Diski” (“The Disks”) featuring American jazz. The disaster separated them rather than united. The ones who overcame the fear of the undeserved punishment and remained faithful to their vocation are now getting together.
1143 KRUG VTOROY (CIRCLE TWO)
1990, 93 min., color, “Troitsky Most”, Creative Initiative Centre, Soviet Culture Foundation, Leningrad Branch, “Zerkalo” Cinema Fans Club (Syktyvkar)
Drama
Director: Alexander Sokurov, screenplay: Yuri Arabov, camera: Alexander Burov, production designer: Vladimir Solovyev, misic: Otmar Nussio, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Pyotr Alexandrov, Nadezhda Rodnova, Tamara Timofeyeva, Alexander Bystryakov, Sergei Krylov
The main character, whose father is dying a terrible and painful death, passes through all the circles a human is destined to traverse at a tragic time like this: the torture of guilt, the torture of inability to help, and the torture of helpless sympathy. The authors of the picture set the task of achieving a closest possible approach to a deep emotional state, a fictitious personification of this extreme pole of spiritual tension.
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The film was awarded the FIPRESSI Prize at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam, Holland (1990) and the Dutch Cinema Critics’ Prize “For the Vanguard Development in Cinema” at the XX International Film Festival in Rotterdam, Holland (1991).
1144 PALACH (THE EXECUTIONER)
1990, 152 min., color, ”Ladoga”, “Lenfilm”, “Russkoje Video”
Criminal drama
Director: Viktor Sergeyev, screenplay: Sergei Beloshnikov, camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Edward Artemyev, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Irina Metlitskaya, Andrei Sokolov, Larisa Guzeyeva, Sergei Gazarov, Boris Galkin, Stanislav Sadalski, Aristarkh Livanov, Yelena Arzhanik, Algis Matuleonis
The main character, Olga, who has suffered a gang rape, makes up her mind to take revenge on her offenders one by one. She hires professionals, members of a widespread Mafia network. The brutality displayed by the Mafia from the very start terrifies Olga...she does her best to stop the criminal machine she herself has started... but to no avail... Her own life is ruined, her once vital soul is utterly devastated...
1145 PANTSYR (THE SHELL)
1990, 91 min., b/w, “First and Experimental Film”, “Lenfilm”
Psychological drama
Director: Igor Alimpiyev, screenplay: Igor Alimpiyev with input from Pyotr Kozhevnikov, camera: Vladimir Ilyin, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: L. Hovanez, sound: Leonid Izakov
Cast: Pyotr Kozhevnikov, Alexander Sporykhin, Anna Bychkova (Perminova), Olga Samoshina, Olga Yakovleva, Sergei Erdenko, Sergei Dobrotvorski, Vladimir Yermilov
Who wants you when you are over thirty, and your best is past? Where are those who used to be close? One is in his coffin (having departed this life), another has turned militiaman (having become a model soldier of Home Troops) and is spying on yet another one, who used to be the most gifted of the three of us, the pride of our school, nowadays making bread (money) in the Nevsky...
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The film was awarded the Bronze Prize of the International Film Festival in Rimini, Italy (1990).
1146 PEREKHOD TOVARISCHA CHKALOVA CHEREZ SEVERNY POLYUS (COMRADE CHKALOV'S CROSSING THE NORTH POLE)
1990, 23 min., b/w, “First and Experimental Film”, “Lenfilm”
Eccentric comedy
Written and directed by: Maxim Pezhemski, camera: Valery Mironov, production designer: Vladislav Orlov, misic: Sergei Kurekhin, sound: Larisa Maslova
Cast: Alexander Zavyalov, Viktor Bychkov, Semyon Furman, Vladimir Baranov
The picture is stylized to reproduce the aesthetics of the silent films, being a parody of the ideological stamps of the classical Soviet movies of the 1920s- 30s.
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The film was awarded the Participant Diploma of the International Film Festival in Cannes, France (1991) and the Main Prize for the Best Short Film at the IX International Film Festival in Turin, Italy (1991).
1147 SLUCHAYNY VALS (A CASUAL WALTZ)
1990, 96 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”, “Lenfilm”
Psychological drama
Director: Svetlana Proskurina, screenplay: Pavel Finn, camera: Dmitry Mass, production designer: Vladimir Yuzhakov, misic: Vyacheslav Gaivoronski, sound: Vladimir Persov
Cast: Alla Sokolova, Tatyana Bondareva, Alexei Serebryakov, Sergei Parapanov, Tatyana Bondareva, Viktor Proskurin
Trying to get rid of her melancholy, Tatyana Prokofyevna, an elderly woman who owns a house on a hill-side, invites young tenants in and begins to take generous care of them... Hers and theirs is a parallel, almost similar existence: unsure, indistinct, and solitary. She makes them learn sense, and it is going to take them time to feel the danger of this tutelage; they get entangled in the web of hopeless dependence on a stranger's strong evil will. Shortly, the ominous house on the slope turns the spineless boys into murderers.
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The film was awarded the “Golden Leopard” – the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland (1990) and the “Mancion Speciale” – the Grand Prix of the XIII International Film Festival in Creitel, France (1991).
1148 SATANA (SATAN)
1990, 108 min., color
Psychological thriller
Written and produced by: Viktor Aristov, camera: Yuri Vorontsov, production designer: Vladimri Bannykh, misic: Arkady Gagulashvioli, sound: Nikolai Astakhov
Cast: Svetlana Bragarnik, Sergei Kupriyanov, Veniamin Malochevsky, Maria Averbach, Mikhail Starodubov
Daughter of Alyona Pavlova, one of the leaders of the local Mafia was kidnapped. The crime
was committed by Vitaly, m a young man who had been working as a courier in the City Council. He promises to release the girl in return for a large sum of money.
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Silver Bear, 41st Berlin IFF (1990)
1149 SOBACHIY PIR (THE DOGS' FEAST)
1990, 100 min., color, ”Ladoga”, “Lenfilm”
Melodrama
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Viktor Merezhko, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Alexander Sysolyatin
Cast: Natalya Gundareva, Sergei Shakurov, Larisa Udovichenko, Anna Polikarpova, Christina Denga
On a holiday eve, everyone, especially one tired and chilly, does so need at least one living soul at one's side: it is bad to meet a holiday alone with oneself. Thus, on a New Year's Eve, the main characters meet, — a meeting of two solitudes. Chance brought two persons of disorderly lives together in a railway terminal.... kindling the hope for a normal, pure human life, the kind others have...
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The actress Natalya Gundareva was honored the Premium for the Best Actress’ Work at the International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada (1990) and was awarded NIKA — the highest annual professional Premium of the Cinematographers’ Union — for the Best Lead Part (1991).
1150 STRASTI PO VLADIMIRU (THE TRIALS OF VLADIMIR)
1990, 110 min., color, ”Golos”, “Leninterfilm”, commissioned by “Tonis”
Satirical comedy
Written and directed by: Mark Rozovsky, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, sound: Harry Belenky
Cast: Vladimir Dolinski, Galina Borisova, Vera Ulik, Igor Staroseltsev, Alexander Lukash, Semyon Farada
The picture based on the famous performance titled” Vysotsky's Concert at a Research Institute” staged by “U Nikitskikh Vorot” (By the Nikitskiye Gate”) Studio Theater features a common occurrence of the early 1970-s: the ban of Vysotski's concert at a Research Institute.
The picture is actual and satirically poignant in the sense that today, when the outward bans have been lifted, the inner ones linger to mar people's lives, preventing them from overcoming their fear and servility and obstructing the “germination” of free thinking and human rights.
1151 TAKSI-BLYUZ (THE TAXI BLUES)
1990, 111 min., color, ”Troitsky Most”, “Lenfilm”, ASK, MK-2 PRODUCTION (France), Goskino USSR
Eccentric drama
Written and directed by: Pavel Lungin, camera: Denis Yevstigneyev, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Vladimir Chekasin, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Pyotr Mamonov, Pyotr Zaichenko, Natalya Kolyakanova, Yelena Safonova, Vladimir Kashpur, Sergei Gazarov, Yevgeny Gerchakov, Dmitry Prigov, Igor Zolotovitski, Valery Khlevinski, Yelena Stepanova, Alexander Buyanov, Sergei Galkin, Alexander Inshakov
The taxi driver Ivan Shlykov becomes an unwilling witness and participant of the musician Lyosha Seliverstov's drinking spree. He drives his bohemian chums around Moscow, sells them his vodka, only to see his client disappear without paying. The taxi driver is mad to be so insulted by a pathetic loafer, a puny nothing of a music player. Shlykov finds Seliverstov, thus setting off the tragic story of their relationship involving a blind hate, an unshared love, an overpowering weakness, a lack of a common language and a crazy hope to find one.
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The film director Pavel Lungin was awarded the Prize of the Jury for the Best Film Director’s Work at the International Film Festival in Cannes, France (1990). The director of photography Denis Yevstigneyev was awarded NIKA -the highest annual professional Premium of the Cinematographers’ Union – for the Best Operator’s Work (1991).
1152 TORMOZHENIYE V NEBESAKH (THE BLOCKING IN HEAVEN)
1990, 76 min., color, ”Ladoga”, “Lenfilm”
Tragic farce
Director: Viktor Buturlin, screenplay: Roman Solntsev with input from Roman Buturlin, camera: Vladimir Vasilyev, production designer: Vladimir Bannykh, misic: Viktor Kisin, sound: Leonid Izakov
Cast: Viktor Smirnov, Nina Ruslanova, Yuri Kuznetsov, Viktor Tsepayev, Lev Borisov, Igor Nikitin, Yuri Mazhuga, Boris Scherbakov, Alexander Fatyushin, Tamara Kolesnikova, Larisa Leonova
Recognizing his doom, Makhonin, First Secretary of the Regional Party Committee, flesh of the flesh of his time, is still trying to hold on to his power and privileges with all his strength.
1153 FUFLO (THE FAKE)
1990, 94 min., color, “Troitsky Most”, “Lenfilm”
Erotic detective story
Director: Alexei Lebedev, screenplay: Kirill Laskari, camera: Vladimir Brylyakov, production designer: Sergei Kokovkin, misic: Merab Gagnidze, sound: Oksana Strugina
Cast: Andrei Rudenski, Alexander Romantsov, Lyubov Polischuk, Tatyana Manevskaya, Yelena Aminova
Viktor Kaloshin is a womanizer, all but instantly conquering virtually any woman he meets. His erotic adventures, love adventures involving outright criminal actions, comprise the contents of the picture with its the moral charge aimed at exposing consumership tendencies both in a person and in society in general.
All the transformations of the ill-starred scum nicknamed “Balerunok” are set against variety show and ballet scenes, against a queer friendship — enmity with a criminal drug addict going by the nickname of Bury, to result in murder.
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