Vasili SHUKSHIN Василий ШУКШИН Vassili CHOUKCHINE   USSR, 1964, 101 mn  Black and white, fiction

There Was A Lad ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Живет такой парень    Il était une fois un gars  zhivyot takoy paren

Plot synopsis

Shukshin, the preeminent Soviet writer of the "rural" school (derevenschik), directs his own story about the progress of the affable country lad Pashka Kolokolnikov. Or, rather, several stories: Shukshin revels in the rhythms of folksy storytelling, its love of bizarre tangents and inspired fibs. He does so even while saluting his fellow Moscow intellectuals with the casting of poet Bella Akhmadulina in a small role as a reporter. Leonid Kuravlev, who plays Pashka, also stars in Panfilov's debut.
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Selected in the following festivals :

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009

- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2009

- Art and Russian cinema Festival Ruskoff, Nice (France), 2004

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