Vadim ABDRASHITOV
Вадим АБДРАШИТОВ
Vadim ABDRACHITOV
USSR, 1976, 98mn 
Colour, fiction
A Word For Defense
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Слово для защиты

 

 Parole à la défense

 Slovo dlya zashchity

 
Directed by : Vadim ABDRASHITOV (Вадим АБДРАШИТОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr MINDADZE (Александр МИНДАДЗЕ)
 
Cast
Valentina BEREZUTSKAIA (Валентина БЕРЕЗУЦКАЯ)
Stanislav LIUBSHIN (Станислав ЛЮБШИН) ...Vitali
Marina NEYELOVA (Марина НЕЕЛОВА) ...Valentina Kostina
Oleg YANKOVSKY (Олег ЯНКОВСКИЙ) ...Irina's fiancé
Galina YATSKINA (Галина ЯЦКИНА) ...Irina Mezhnikova
 
Cinematography : Anatoli ZABOLOTSKY (Анатолий ЗАБОЛОЦКИЙ)
Production design : Ippolit NOVODEREZHKIN (Ипполит НОВОДЕРЕЖКИН)
Music : Vladimir MARTYNOV (Владимир МАРТЫНОВ)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 20,5 millions of spectators
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
Vitaly tells his girlfriend Valya cynically that she didn’t suit him any more and in dispair young woman tries to stifle him and herself by gas. The attempt wasn’t successful and she is remand now. A young barrister Irina Mezhinova, studying the case of her defendant, revises her relations with her bridegroom and realizes that she doesn’t love him.
www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Преступление и осознание: о первых фильмах Абдрашитова и Миндадзе [Crime et conscience : à propos des premiers films d'Abdrashitov et Mindadze], Валерия КОСЕНКО, kinoart.ru, 2023
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Internet-festival "Rossiskaya Gazeta" Dubl DV@, Different cities (Russia), 2012
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011