Boris YURTSEV
Борис ЮРЦЕВ
Boris YOURTSEV
USSR, 1932, 64mn 
A Graceful Life
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Изящная жизнь

 

 Une vie distinguée

 Iziashchnaya zhizn

 
Directed by : Boris YURTSEV (Борис ЮРЦЕВ)
Writing credits : Bella ZORICH (Бэлла ЗОРИЧ)
 
Cast
Boris TENIN (Борис ТЕНИН) ...Fred
Olga ZHIZNEVA (Ольга ЖИЗНЕВА) ...Marusya
Yelena MELNIKOVA (Елена МЕЛЬНИКОВА) ...Liza
Konstantin GRADOPOLOV (Константин ГРАДОПОЛОВ) ...Andrey
Tatyana BARYSHEVA (Татьяна БАРЫШЕВА) ...prostitue
Ivan BOBROV (Иван БОБРОВ)
 
Cinematography : Vladimir_2 POPOV (Владимир_2 ПОПОВ)
Production design : Dmitry KOLOUPAYEV (Дмитрий КОЛУПАЕВ)
Music : Nikolay KRIUKOV (Николай КРЮКОВ)
Production : Rostfilm
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
The young English sailor Fred Todes draws his knowledge of life from tabloid novels. Carried away by dreams, he is late for his shift and finds himself in a crowd of unemployed. Baton strikes convince Fred that the graceful life in books is a lie that puts the poor to sleep. After long ordeals, he manages to become a sailor on a Soviet steamship...
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Festival of Archival Films (Formerly "Belye Stolby"), Moscow (Russia), 2022

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