Yevgeni CHERVIAKOV
Евгений ЧЕРВЯКОВ
Evgueni TCHERVIAKOV
USSR, 1930, 92mn 
Black and white
Goroda i gody
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Города и годы

 

 Cities and Years

 Les Villes et les années

 
Directed by : Yevgeni CHERVIAKOV (Евгений ЧЕРВЯКОВ)
Writing credits : Yevgeni CHERVIAKOV (Евгений ЧЕРВЯКОВ), Dmitry TOLMACHEV (Дмитрий ТОЛМАЧЕВ), Natan ZARKHI (Натан ЗАРХИ)
Based on Konstantin Fedin’s novel of the same title
 
Cast
Ivan CHUVELEV (Иван ЧУВЕЛЕВ) ...Startsev
Gennadi MICHURIN (Геннадий МИЧУРИН) ...Kurt Van
Yevgeni CHERVIAKOV (Евгений ЧЕРВЯКОВ)
Vladimir GARDIN (Владимир ГАРДИН)
David GUTMAN (Давид ГУТМАН)
Andrey KOSTRICHKIN (Андрей КОСТРИЧКИН)
Sofia MAGARILL (Софья МАГАРИЛЛ)
 
Cinematography : Svyatoslav BYELYAYEV (Святослав БЕЛЯЕВ), Aleksandr SIGAYEV (Александр СИГАЕВ)
Production design : Semyon MEYNKIN (Семён МЕЙНКИН)
Other persons :
Cast : Bernhard GOETZKE
Companies : Lensoyouzkino
 

Plot synopsis
“What you need to understand,” says Kurt, “is that you are the enemy!” – The quintessential message of this emotional duel between two former friends, once brothers in arms as members of the international battalion in the 1919 struggle for Petrograd, is that one has to decide in favour of a class, namely that of the workers, soldiers, peasants. Based on Fedin’s first novel, Chervyakov’s last silent film retains the complex plot structure, the interwoven temporal planes, the tapestry of figures. The additional ingredient is existentialism. Psychological sketches on celluloid – subtle, almost lyrical, a world away from heroic narrative.