Lev KULIDZHANOV
Лев КУЛИДЖАНОВ
Lev KOULIDJANOV
USSR, 1962, 95mn 
Black and white, fiction
Kogda derevya byli bolshimi
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Когда деревья были большими

 

 Quand les arbres étaient grands

 Kogda derevya byli bolshimi

 
Directed by : Lev KULIDZHANOV (Лев КУЛИДЖАНОВ)
Writing credits : Nikolay FIGUROVSKY (Николай ФИГУРОВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Inna GULAYA (Инна ГУЛАЯ) ...Natacha
Leonid KURAVLYOV (Леонид КУРАВЛЕВ) ...Lionka
Yekaterina MAZUROVA (Екатерина МАЗУРОВА) ...Anastasia Borisovna
Yevgeniya MELNIKOVA (Евгения МЕЛЬНИКОВА) ...chef de wagon
Yuri NIKULIN (Юрий НИКУЛИН) ...Ivan Kouzmitch
Vasili SHUKSHIN (Василий ШУКШИН) ...président du kolkhoze
 
Cinematography : Valery GINZBURG (Валерий ГИНЗБУРГ)
Production design : Piotr GALADZHEV (Пётр ГАЛАДЖЕВ)
Music : Leonid AFANASYEV (Леонид АФАНАСЬЕВ)
Sound : Dmitry BELEVICH (Дмитрий БЕЛЕВИЧ)
Editing : Natalya LOGINOVA (Наталья ЛОГИНОВА)
Production : Gorky Film Studio
Spectators : 21 millions of spectators
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
Having lost his wife during the war, Ivan Kuzmitch began to drink. But one day, by chance, learning that a little girl had lost her parents during the war, he decides to become her father. He leaves Moscow to go and look for his daughter...
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Retrospective Russian cinema at the "Reflet Médicis", Paris (France), 2009
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1962