Samson SAMSONOV
Самсон САМСОНОВ
Samson SAMSONOV
USSR, 1963, 121mn 
Colour, fiction
An Optimistic Tragedy
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Оптимистическая трагедия

 

 La Tragédie optimiste

 Optimisticheskaya tragedya

 
Directed by : Samson SAMSONOV (Самсон САМСОНОВ)
Writing credits : Samson SAMSONOV (Самсон САМСОНОВ), Sofia VISHNEVETSKAYA (Софья ВИШНЕВЕЦКАЯ)
 
Cast
Margarita VOLODINA (Маргарита ВОЛОДИНА) ...commissaire
Boris ANDREYEV (Борис АНДРЕЕВ) ...Vozhak
Vyacheslav TIKHONOV (Вячеслав ТИХОНОВ) ...Aleksey
Vsevolod SANAEV (Всеволод САНАЕВ) ...Siply
Erast GARIN (Эраст ГАРИН) ...Vozhachok
Oleg STRIZHENOV (Олег СТРИЖЕНОВ) ...first officer
Ivan ZHEVAGO (Иван ЖЕВАГО)
 
Cinematography : Vladimir MONAKHOV (Владимир МОНАХОВ)
Production design : Ippolit NOVODEREZHKIN (Ипполит НОВОДЕРЕЖКИН)
Music : Vasili DEKHTEREV (Василий ДЕХТЕРЕВ)
Sound : Grigori KORENBLYUM (Григорий КОРЕНБЛЮМ)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 46 millions of spectators
 
Site : IMDb
Awards :
Special Prize Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1963
Plot synopsis
Based on the play of the same name by Vsevolod Vishnevsky. About a young woman-commissar at one of the fronts during the Civil War. About strength of mind, courage and will.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Official list of Russian films for school programs, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Official list of Russian films for school programs, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2015
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2009
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1963
Photos, videos, texts
 

Source : www.kino-teatr.ru



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