Vladimir KHOTINENKO
Владимир ХОТИНЕНКО
Vladimir KHOTINENKO
1987, 139mn 
Colour, fiction
Zerkalo dlya geroya
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Зеркало для героя

 

 Zerkalo dlya geroya

 Un miroir pour un héros

 
Directed by : Vladimir KHOTINENKO (Владимир ХОТИНЕНКО)
Writing credits : Nadezhda KOZHUSHANAIA (Надежда КОЖУШАНАЯ)
 
Cast
Sergey KOLTAKOV (Сергей КОЛТАКОВ) ...Sergey Pshnichny
Ivan BORTNIK (Иван БОРТНИК) ...Andrey Nemchinov
Boris GALKIN (Борис ГАЛКИН) ...Sergey's father, young
Felix STEPUN (Феликс СТЕПУН) ...Sergey's father, old
Natalya AKIMOVA (Наталья АКИМОВА) ...Sergey's mother
 
Text of songs : Evgeniy DOLMATOVSKY (Евгений ДОЛМАТОВСКИЙ)
Cinematography : Evgeniy GREBNEV (Евгений ГРЕБНЕВ)
Production design : Mikhail ROZENSTEIN (Михаил РОЗЕНШТЕЙН)
Music : Boris_2 PETROV (Борис_2 ПЕТРОВ)
Companies : Sverdlovsk Studio
Release Date in Russia : 07/1988
 
Sites : Kinopoisk, IMDb

Plot synopsis
On a film set, Sergei meets Andrei Nemchinovy. By chance, leaning on a wire, he falls and finds himself, with his new friend, in the mining town where he grew up.
 

commentaries
Huit films soviétiques sur des voyages dans le temps, Anna Popova, Fenêtre sur la Russie, 2025
6 советских фильмов о перемещениях во времени [6 films soviétiques sur le voyage dans le temps], Сергей ВАСИЛЬЧЕНКО, dzen.ru, 2023
Прорва. Образ пространства в современной кинодраматургии, Yelena GRACHEVA, seance.ru, 2009
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Contemporary Russian Poets and Russian or Soviet Cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026
- Official list of Russian films for school programs, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Time travel and Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 1988

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