Semyon TIMOSHENKO
Семён ТИМОШЕНКО
Semion TIMOCHENKO
Russia, 1936, 75mn 
Black and white, fiction
The Goalkeeper
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Вратарь

 

 Le Gardien de but

 Vratar

 
Directed by : Semyon TIMOSHENKO (Семён ТИМОШЕНКО)
Writing credits : Lev KASSIL (Лев КАССИЛЬ), Mikhail YUDIN (Михаил ЮДИН)
 
Cast
Pyotr YAKIMOV (Пётр ЯКИМОВ) ...Anton Kandidov
Anatoli GORYUNOV (Анатолий ГОРЮНОВ) ...Karasik
Tatyana GURETSKAYA (Татьяна ГУРЕЦКАЯ) ...Grusha
Lyudmila GLAZOVA (Людмила ГЛАЗОВА)
Yakov GUDKIN (Яков ГУДКИН)
Fyodor KURIKHIN (Федор КУРИХИН)
Valery SOLOVTSOV (Валерий СОЛОВЦОВ)
 
Cinematography : Vladimir DANASHEVSKY (Владимир ДАНАШЕВСКИЙ)
Production design : Vladimir KALYAGIN (Владимир КАЛЯГИН), Pyotr YAKIMOV (Пётр ЯКИМОВ)
Music : Isaac DUNAEVSKY (Исаак ДУНАЕВСКИЙ)
Production : Lenfilm
Spectators : 20 millions of spectators
Release date in Russia : 25/12/1936
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk

Plot synopsis
The film tells about rivalry of two football teams and about a young stevedore from Volga region who was a born goalkeeper.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Douze films soviétiques sur le sport que vous pouvez regarder en ligne, Anna POPOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2024
10 лучших советских фильмов о спорте и спортсменах, film.ru, 2018
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Sport films, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Soviet comedies, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2014
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2013

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