Yuri ILIENKO
Юрий ИЛЬЕНКО
Youri ILIENKO
USSR (Ukraine), 1965, 72mn 
Black and white, fiction
Rodnik dlya zhazhdushnikh
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Родник для жаждущих

 

 A Fountain For The Thirsty / A Spring for the Thirsty

 Une source pour les assoiffés

Other titles : Krynytsya Dlya Sprahlykh
 
Directed by : Yuri ILIENKO (Юрий ИЛЬЕНКО)
Writing credits : Ivan DRACH (Иван ДРАЧ)
 
Cast
Nina ALISOVA (Нина АЛИСОВА)
Jemma FIRSOVA (Джемма ФИРСОВА)
Larisa KADOCHNIKOVA (Лариса КАДОЧНИКОВА)
Ivan KOSTYUCHENKO (Иван КОСТЮЧЕНКО)
Feodosia LITVINENKO (Феодосия ЛИТВИНЕНКО)
Dmitry MILIUTENKO (Дмитрий МИЛЮТЕНКО)
 
Cinematography : Yuri ILIENKO (Юрий ИЛЬЕНКО)
Production design : Pyotr MAKSIMENTO (Пётр МАКСИМЕНКО), Anatoli MAMONTOV (Анатолий МАМОНТОВ)
Music : Leonid GRABOSKY (Леонид ГРАБОВСКИЙ)
Sound : Nina AVRAMENKO (Нина АВРАМЕНКО)
Companies : Studio Dovzhenko
Release Date in Russia : 1987
 

Plot synopsis
This film is now considered an important part of the Ukrainian film heritage. It was made in 1965 but was not released until 1987. Director Yuri Ilyenko, who served as a cinematographer on Sergei Paradjanov's acclaimed Shadows of our Forgotten Ancestors is widely regarded as a living treasure of Ukrainian cinema. In this impressionistic and spare black-and-white film, evocative imagery dominates the story and there is very little dialogue. The life of a man who lives in a desert oasis is unveiled. He is an old man, and except for the occasional visits of strangers seeking to slake their thirst at the village well, nothing very much happens where he lives. In one scene, the old man himself is seen as imprisoned within the well. In another, a jet flies overhead and a car approaches carrying family members who have brought the old man a tape recorder as a present.
Clarke Fountain, www.allmovie.com
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2011
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Kyiv International Film Festival 'Molodist', Kiev (Ukraine), 2007

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