Yevgeni KARELOV
Евгений КАРЕЛОВ
Evgueni KARELOV
USSR, 1968, 98mn 
Black and white, fiction
Two Comrades Were Serving
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Служили два товарища

 

 Deux camarades à l'armée

 Sluzhili dva tovarishcha

Other titles : Two Comrades Served
 
Directed by : Yevgeni KARELOV (Евгений КАРЕЛОВ)
Writing credits : Yuli DUNSKY (Юлий ДУНСКИЙ), Valery FRID (Валерий ФРИД)
 
Cast
Oleg YANKOVSKY (Олег ЯНКОВСКИЙ) ...Andrey Nekrasov
Rolan BYKOV (Ролан БЫКОВ) ...Ivan Karyakin
Vladimir VYSOTSKY (Владимир ВЫСОЦКИЙ) ...Aleksandr Brousentsov
Ia SAVVINA (Ия САВВИНА) ...Sasha
Anatoli PAPANOV (Анатолий ПАПАНОВ) ...colonel
Alla DEMIDOVA (Алла ДЕМИДОВА) ...Commissaire
Nikolay KRIUCHKOV (Николай КРЮЧКОВ)
Apollon YACHNITSKY (Аполлон ЯЧНИЦКИЙ)
 
Cinematography : Mikhail ARDABEVESKY (Михаил АРДАБЬЕВСКИЙ), Viktor BELOKOPYTOV (Виктор БЕЛОКОПЫТОВ)
Production design : Lev SEMYONOV (Лев СЕМЕНОВ), Boris TSAREV (Борис ЦАРЕВ)
Music : Yevgeni PTICHKIN (Евгений ПТИЧКИН)
Sound : Roland KAZARIAN (Роланд КАЗАРЯН)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 22,5 millions of spectators
Release date in Russia : 21/10/1968
 
Site : IMDb

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico.
Bonus: Interview de N.Vysotski, Filmographies; Photo album;
Langues : Russe, Anglais, Francais
Sous-titres : Russe, Anglais, Francais, Espangol, Italien, Allemand

Plot synopsis
About not so simple friendship between Andrey Nekrasov and Ivan Karyakin having different characters and education, who met each other during the Civil War. They were assigned to organize air reconnaissance, shooting enemy fortifications from an aeroplane with a trophy camera. Their first flight ended in a crash and people of Makhno took them prisoners, then there was another captivity, and they often were under the threat of being shot.They survived at that time. In the end the cameraman was killed by a stray bullet, but the film he shot remained…
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Dix grands films soviétiques sortis dans les années 1960, Alexandra GOUZEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
Героическая комедия и её герои [La comédie héroïque et ses héros], Oleg KOVALOV, cinematheque.ru, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Best Soviet films according to Russia Beyond, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2021
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2017
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2013
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2012

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