Boris FRUMIN
Борис ФРУМИН
Boris FROUMINE
USSR, 1975, 78mn 
Black and white, fiction
Headmaster's Diary
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Дневник директора школы

 

 Journal d’un directeur d’école

 Dnevnik direktora shkoly

 
Directed by : Boris FRUMIN (Борис ФРУМИН)
Writing credits : Anatoli GREBNEV (Анатолий ГРЕБНЕВ)
 
Cast
Oleg BORISOV (Олег БОРИСОВ)
Iya SAVVINA (Ия САВВИНА)
Sergey KOSHONIN (Сергей КОШОНИН)
Lyudmila GURCHENKO (Людмила ГУРЧЕНКО)
Alina POKROVSKAYA (Алина ПОКРОВСКАЯ)
Yelena SOLOVEY (Елена СОЛОВЕЙ)
 
Cinematography : Aleksey GAMBARIAN (Алексей ГАМБАРЯН )
Production design : Yuri PUGACH (Юрий ПУГАЧ)
Production : Lenfilm
Release date in Russia : 20/10/1975
 
Sites : IMDb, Chapaev.media, Kinopoisk

Plot synopsis
Boris Nikolayevich Sveshnikov’s appointment as headmaster of the school is quite recent. The film is structured as Sveshnikov’s own story of himself, of his relationship with his students and schoolmasters and with his family, of the problems he encountered pursuing his chosen vocation, of the impossibility to comply with standards when exercising the hard work of teaching...
Source : www.lenfilm.ru
 

Commentaries
Второй план в советском кино, Evgeniy MARGOLIT, seance.ru, 2012
Приключения белой вороны: Эволюция «школьного фильма» в советском кино [Les Aventures d'un corbeau blanc : L'évolution du « film scolaire » dans le cinéma soviétique], Liubov ARKUS, Seance.ru, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Childhood and Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026
- Official list of Russian films for school programs, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024
- International Festival of Archive Films, Moscow (Russia), 2012

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