Marlen KHUTSIEV
Марлен ХУЦИЕВ
Marlen KHOUTSIEV
USSR, 1966, 109mn 
Black and white, fiction
July Rain
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Июльский дождь

 

 Pluie de juillet

 Iyulskiy Dozhd

 
Directed by : Marlen KHUTSIEV (Марлен ХУЦИЕВ)
Writing credits : Anatoli GREBNEV (Анатолий ГРЕБНЕВ), Marlen KHUTSIEV (Марлен ХУЦИЕВ)
 
Cast
Aleksandr BELYAVSKY (Александр БЕЛЯВСКИЙ) ...Volodia
Zinovi GERDT (Зиновий ГЕРДТ)
Igor KASHINTSEV (Игорь КАШИНЦЕВ)
Aleksandr MITTA (Александр МИТТА) ...Vladik
Yevgeniya URALOVA (Евгения УРАЛОВА) ...Lena
Yuri VIZBOR (Юрий ВИЗБОР) ...Alik
 
Cinematography : German LAVROV (Герман ЛАВРОВ)
Songs : Bulat OKUDZHAVA (Булат ОКУДЖАВА), Yuri VIZBOR (Юрий ВИЗБОР)
Production design : Georgi KOLGANOV (Георгий КОЛГАНОВ)
Music : Bulat OKUDZHAVA (Булат ОКУДЖАВА), Yuri VIZBOR (Юрий ВИЗБОР)
Sound : Boris VENGEROVSKY (Борис ВЕНГЕРОВСКИЙ)
Production : Mosfilm
Film revenue in Russia : 0.045332 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 07/08/1967
 
Sites : IMDb, Kino-teatr

Plot synopsis
Lena and Volodya are going to marry, but the girl finds out in time that her bridegroom is a mean and ignoble man. After leaving him the girl meets Zhenya in the rain, which washes all unnecessaries from her former life.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries
Поэт дождя. 100 лет назад родился Марлен Хуциев [Poète de la pluie. Il y a 100 ans, naissait Marlen Khoutsiev], Andrey PLAKHOV, kommersant.ru, 2025
RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq films nostalgiques soviétiques d’été, Valeria PAÏKOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2021
8 Soviet films in which you can glimpse old Moscow, Yekaterina SINELSCHIKOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
10 movies that define Russian cinema, Yulia SHAMPOROVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2017
Второй план в советском кино, Evgeniy MARGOLIT, seance.ru, 2012
 
The main character of the film, Lena, is an engineer in a printing house. Her fiancé Volodya is a promising scientist. According to the ironic definition of a friend, “anti-magnetic, frost-resistant, waterproof, anti-corrosion, refractory ... does not burn in dense layers of the atmosphere.” They are about thirty. The film tells about their lives over several months: from the July rain to late autumn.

The Khrushchev thaw was replaced by the Brezhnev stagnation. Russian film critic Miron Chernenko called July Rain a requiem for the era, a film in which the heroes of Ilyich's Outpost not only matured by more than three years – they matured by a whole historical cataclysm. Chernenko wrote about the film as follows: “Never before Khutsiev was so close to the ideal of his cinema as in the finale of “July Rain”, in which the world really exists simultaneously in many levels, many time planes, intersecting in the most complex sound-viewing score, colliding and diverging again in the most unexpected configurations and polygons ... It is about this, about the unexpected ambiguity of the world, about the bottomlessness of history that these tense, mistrustful, prickly glances are exchanged between veterans who cry for the first time here, at the Bolshoi, in public, after a whole twenty years historical unconsciousness, and young, already beaten by school and family, already leaving in the seventies ... Khutsiev gives each of them for a moment his unblinking, alien to illusion, non-romantic and non-sentimental look, and each of them discovers another, discovers an era , history, future ... ”.

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival de la cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2026
- Sunday morning film club at Le Balzac. Russian cinema, Paris (France), 2026
- Contemporary Russian Poets and Russian or Soviet Cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026
- Soviet cinema and songs, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026
- Official list of Russian films for school programs, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023
- International Festival of Archive Films, Moscow (Russia), 2021
- Les Rencontres cinématographiques de Cannes, Cannes (France), 2020
- Rétrospective Marlen Khoutsiev à la Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2017
- Festival du film russe de Paris & Ile-de-France "Une autre Russie", Paris (France), 2017
- Russian Film Festival in Niort, Niort (France), 2016
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2015
- Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2015
- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2011
- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2009
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2008
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2008
- FEMA / La Rochelle International Film Festival, La Rochelle (France), 2003
- Gels et dégels, une autre histoire du cinéma soviétique (1926-1968), Paris (kinoglaz.fr), 2002
- Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2000

Photos, videos, texts
 

Film avec sous-titres français



**** Песня - Chanson - Song ***

Простите пехоте / Pardonnez à l'infanterie / Forgive the Infantry


Простите пехоте / Pardonnez à l'infanterie / Forgive the Infantry
Mузыка и слова-Булат Окуджава, поёт-Юрий Визбор
Musique et paroles : Boulat Okoudjava, chante Youri Vizbor
Musique et paroles : Boulat Okoudjava, chante Youri Vizbor

Простите пехоте

Простите пехоте,
Что так неразумна бывает она,
Всегда мы уходим,
Когда над землею бушует весна.
И шагом неверным
По лестничке шаткой, спасения нет,
Лишь белые вербы,
Как белые сестры глядят тебе вслед,
Лишь белые вербы,
Как белые сестры глядят тебе вслед.

<18.34>

Не верьте погоде,
Когда затяжные дожди она льет,
Не верьте пехоте,
Когда она бравые песни поет.

Не верьте, не верьте,
Когда по садам запоют соловьи,
У жизни со смертью
Еще не окончены счеты свои,
[[У жизни со смертью
Еще не окончены счеты свои.]]

Нас время учило
Живи по походному, дверь отворя,
Товарищ мужчина,
А все же заманчива должность твоя,
Всегда ты в походе,
И только одно отрывает от сна
Куда ж мы уходим,
Когда над землею бушует весна?
Чего ж мы уходим,
Когда над землею бушует весна?

Pardonnez à l'infanterie

Pardonnez à l'infanterie
D'être parfois si déraisonnable.
Nous partons toujours
Quand le printemps déferle sur la terre.
Et d'un pas incertain,
Sur un petit escalier branlant, sans espoir de salut,
Seuls les saules blancs,
Comme des sœurs vêtues de blanc, te regardent t'éloigner.
Seuls les saules blancs,
Comme des sœurs vêtues de blanc, te regardent t'éloigner.

Ne vous fiez pas au temps
Lorsqu'il déverse des pluies interminables.
Ne vous fiez pas à l'infanterie
Lorsqu'elle chante de vaillantes chansons.
Ne vous y fiez pas, ne vous y fiez pas,
Quand les rossignols se mettent à chanter dans les jardins.
La vie et la mort
N'ont pas encore réglé leurs comptes.
La vie et la mort
N'ont pas encore réglé leurs comptes.

Le temps nous a appris :
À vivre comme à la halte, la porte ouverte.
Camarade, toi qui es un homme,
Et pourtant, ta condition est bien séduisante.
Tu es toujours en marche,
Et une seule question t'arrache au sommeil :
Où donc allons-nous,
Quand le printemps déferle sur la terre ?
Pourquoi donc partons-nous,
Quand le printemps déferle sur la terre ?



Forgive the Infantry

Forgive the infantry
For being so unreasonable at times.
We always march away
When spring is raging across the earth.
And with an uncertain step,
Down a rickety little staircase, with no hope of escape,
Only the white willows,
Like sisters dressed in white, watch you go.
Only the white willows,
Like sisters dressed in white, watch you go.

Do not trust the weather
When it pours down endless rain.
Do not trust the infantry
When it sings its valiant songs.
Do not trust it, do not trust it,
When nightingales begin to sing in the gardens.
Life and death
Have not yet settled their accounts.
Life and death
Have not yet settled their accounts.

Time has taught us:
To live as if at a resting place, with the door open.
Comrade, you who are a man,
And yet your lot is an enticing one.
You are always on the move,
And only one question tears you from your sleep:
Where are we going,
When spring is raging across the earth?
Why do we march away,
When spring is raging across the earth?



**** Песня - Chanson - Song ***

Спокойно, товарищ, спокойно / Calme-toi, camarade, calme-toi / Take it easy, comrade, take it easy


Спокойно, товарищ, спокойно / Calme-toi, camarade, calme-toi / Take it easy, comrade, take it easy
Mузыка и слова-Юрий Визбор, поёт-Юрий Визбор
Musique et paroles : Youri Vizbor, chante : Youri Vizbor
Music i lyrics: Yuri Vizbor, sings: Yuri Vizbor

- 35.34
Спокойно, товарищ, спокойно

Спокойно, товарищ, спокойно,
У нас еще все впереди,
Пусть шпилем ночной колокольни
Беда ковыряет в груди,
Не путай конец и кончину,
Рассветы, как прежде, трубят,
Кручина твоя не причина,
А только ступень для тебя.

Скрипят под ногами ступени,
Мол, прожил, и все стороной,
Скрипят под ногами ступени,
И годы висят за спиной.
И куришь ты все беспокойно,
И тень под глазами лежит,
И зябнет походная койка,
И черная птица кружит.

Спокойно, дружище, спокойно,
И пить нам, и весело петь,
Еще в предстоящие войны
Тебе предстоит уцелеть,
Уже и рассветы проснулись,
Что к жизни тебя возвратят,
Уже приготовлены пули,
Что мимо тебя просвистят.


Calme-toi, camarade, calme-toi

Calme-toi, camarade, calme-toi,
Nous avons encore tout l'avenir devant nous.
Même si, de la flèche d'un clocher nocturne,
Le malheur te fouille la poitrine,
Ne confonds pas la fin et la mort,
Les aurores, comme autrefois, sonnent du clairon.
Ton chagrin n'est pas une raison de renoncer,
Mais seulement une marche à gravir.

Les marches grincent sous tes pieds,
Comme pour dire : tu as vécu, et tout est passé à côté de toi.
Les marches grincent sous tes pieds,
Et les années pèsent derrière ton dos.
Et tu fumes, toujours aussi inquiet,
Et une ombre s'étend sous tes yeux,
Et ton lit de camp se refroidit,
Et un oiseau noir tourne dans le ciel.

Calme-toi, mon ami, calme-toi,
Nous avons encore à boire et à chanter joyeusement.
Dans les guerres qui viendront encore,
Il te faudra survivre.
Déjà se sont éveillées les aurores
Qui te ramèneront à la vie.
Déjà sont préparées les balles
Qui siffleront en passant à côté de toi.



Take it easy, comrade, take it easy

Take it easy, comrade, take it easy,
We still have everything ahead of us.
Though misfortune, with the spire of a bell tower at night,
May probe deep into your chest,
Do not confuse an ending with death.
The dawns sound their trumpets as before.
Your sorrow is no reason to give up,
But merely another step for you to climb.

The steps creak beneath your feet,
As if to say: you have lived, and everything has passed you by.
The steps creak beneath your feet,
And the years hang heavy behind your back.
And you keep smoking restlessly,
And shadows lie beneath your eyes,
And your camp bed grows cold,
And a black bird circles overhead.

Take it easy, my friend, take it easy,
We still have drinking and joyful singing ahead of us.
In the wars that are yet to come,
You will have to survive.
Already the dawns have awakened,
The dawns that will bring you back to life.
Already the bullets have been prepared
That will whistle past you without striking.