Marlen KHUTSIEV Марлен ХУЦИЕВ Marlen KHOUTSIEV   USSR, 1956, 96 mn  Black and white, fiction

Spring on Zarechnaya Street ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Весна на Заречной улице    Le Printemps dans la rue Zaretchnaïa  Vesna na zarechnoy ulitse

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Plot synopsis

At the end of her teaching training course, a young woman, Tatiana is appointed to teach an adult class composed of workers from a steelworks. She rejects advances made by one of the plant's best foundry workers, Sacha, who is unaccustomed to such a rejection. He drops out of the class. Gradually she settles down in the city, getting to know the factory workers but the fate of Sacha who is in dire need of a new qualification continues to niggle her. With the arrival of spring, it's also exam time. By chance Tatiana meets Sacha...
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Commentaries and bibliography

Cinematic Cold War : The American and Soviet Struggle for Hearts and Minds, Denise YOUNGBLOOD, Tony SHAW, University Press of Kansas, 2010

 

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2011

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011

- Festival of Archive Films, Belye Stolby (Russia), 2011

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009

- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2007

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2006

- La Rochelle International Film Festival, La Rochelle (France), 2003

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