Vladimir TUMAYEV
Владимир ТУМАЕВ
Vladimir TOUMAEV
Russia, 2009, 92mn 
fiction
Demoted
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Разжалованный

 

 Le Dégradé

 Razzhalovanyy

 
Directed by : Vladimir TUMAYEV (Владимир ТУМАЕВ)
Writing credits : Natalia PORTNOVA (Наталья ПОРТНОВА)
 
Cast
Aleksandr MIKHAYLOV (Александр МИХАЙЛОВ) ...Vladimir
Nikita TEZIN (Никита ТЕЗИН) ...Smirnov
Philip BAZHIN (Филипп БАЖИН) ...Smirnov
Denis KARASEV (Денис КАРАСЕВ)
Marina KUDELINSKAYA (Марина КУДЕЛИНСКАЯ)
Olga LAPCHINA (Ольга ЛАПШИНА)
Andrey MEJULIS (Андрей МЕЖУЛИС)
 
Cinematography : Dmitry KUVSHINOV (Дмитрий КУВШИНОВ)
Music : Maksim KOSHEVAROV (Максим КОШЕВАРОВ)
Produced by : Olga MANEYEVA (Ольга МАНЕЕВА)
Production : Phenix Film
 

Plot synopsis
It is 1943, and the forces of the Red Army are entangled in battle near Vyazma. A young platoon commander just arrived from college refuses an order to lead his soldiers to certain death straight into the machine-gun fire of the enemy. In a rage, his battalion commander sends him to the divisional court martial. The youth is escorted by a detective of the court and a veteran soldier. As they make their way back to base, they come across a former German hospital and a burnt-out village. The detective is compelled to organize his own trial and to shoot the traitor himself, but the old soldier intervenes on behalf of his demoted commander. Soon they arrive at the position of the division headquarters, only to find that the command has redeployed and that the site is now a field hospital. Here it becomes clear that the old soldier is not exactly who he claims to be, while the demoted youth performs an act of heroism that forces the court detective to rethink his opinion…
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2010