Boris BARNET
Борис БАРНЕТ
Boris BARNET
USSR, 1940, 96mn 
Black and white, fiction
The Old Rider
▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪

Старый наездник

 

 Le Vieux jockey

 Stary Naezdnik

 
Directed by : Boris BARNET (Борис БАРНЕТ)
Writing credits : Nikolay ERDMAN (Николай ЭРДМАН), Mikhail VOLPIN (Михаил ВОЛЬПИН)
 
Cast
Sergey BLINNIKOV (Сергей БЛИННИКОВ)
Aleksandra DENISSOVA (Александра ДЕНИСОВА)
Leonid KMIT (Леонид КМИТ)
Anna KOMOLOVA (Анна КОМОЛОВА)
Ivan LIUBEZNOV (Иван ЛЮБЕЗНОВ)
Aleksandra SALNIKOVA (Александра САЛЬНИКОВА)
Ivan SKURATOV (Иван СКУРАТОВ)
 
Cinematography : Konstantin KUZNETSOV (Константин КУЗНЕЦОВ)
Production design : Artur BERGER (Артур БЕРГЕР)
Music : Vladimir YUROVSKY (Владимир ЮРОВСКИЙ)
Production : Mosfilm
Release date in Russia : 12/1959
 
Plot synopsis
About Trofimov, a well-known rider who goes on taking part in races in spite of the advanced age, until he realizes his time has gone and passes his experience on to his granddaughter’s fiance.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 
Selected in the following festivals :
- 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' Festival, Bologna (Italy), 2011