Natalia BONDARCHUK
Наталья БОНДАРЧУК
Natalia BONDARTCHOUK
Nikolay BURLIAEV
Николай БУРЛЯЕВ
Nikolaï BOURLIAEV
Igor KHUTSIYEV
Игорь ХУЦИЕВ
Igor KHOUTSIEV
USSR, 1975, 77mn 
Colour, fiction
Back Country Ways
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Пошехонская старина

 

 Autrefois à Pochekhonie

 Poshekhonskaya starina

 
Directed by : Natalia BONDARCHUK (Наталья БОНДАРЧУК), Nikolay BURLIAEV (Николай БУРЛЯЕВ), Igor KHUTSIYEV (Игорь ХУЦИЕВ)
Writing credits : Natalia BONDARCHUK (Наталья БОНДАРЧУК), Nikolay BURLIAEV (Николай БУРЛЯЕВ), Igor KHUTSIYEV (Игорь ХУЦИЕВ)
 
Cast
Inna MAKAROVA (Инна МАКАРОВА) ...Anna Pavlovna
Viktor MAMAYEV (Виктор МАМАЕВ) ...Fedos
Nikolay BURLIAEV (Николай БУРЛЯЕВ) ...Vanka-Kain
Natalia BONDARCHUK (Наталья БОНДАРЧУК) ...Martenka
Erast GARIN (Эраст ГАРИН) ...Vasili Porfirych
Liya AKHEDZHAKOVA (Лия АХЕДЖАКОВА)
Lev DUROV (Лев ДУРОВ)
Valery KOZINETS (Валерий КОЗИНЕЦ)
Svetlana KRIUCHKOVA (Светлана КРЮЧКОВА)
M. SAPOZHNIKOVA (М. САПОЖНИКОВА)
Mariya VINOGRADOVA (Мария ВИНОГРАДОВА)
 
Cinematography : Viktor ERSHTEIN (Виктор ЭПШТЕЙН), Yevgeni GUSLINSKY (Евгений ГУСЛИНСКИЙ)
Production design : Ippolit NOVODEREZHKIN (Ипполит НОВОДЕРЕЖКИН), Aleksandr TOLKACHOV (Александр ТОЛКАЧЕВ)
Music : Yuri BUTSKO (Юрий БУЦКО)
Production : Mosfilm
Release date in Russia : 01/77
 

Plot synopsis
A film anthology, which consists of three novellas made after M. E. Saitykov-Shchedrin’s novel of the same name. «Pitiful Matryona»: A tragic story of a serf Matryona, who was married by force by her barinia. «Brother Fedos»: An open-hearted and merry young man Fedos comes to his relatives’ estate, but it turns out that he is unwanted in their house. «Vanka-Cain»: A barber Ivan, a joker and cheery fellow, incurs his landlady’s anger. But neither whipping, nor threatens, nor the decision to send him to recruits can break his life loving character.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2012