Aleksandr DOVZHENKO
Александр ДОВЖЕНКО
Aleksandr DOVJENKO
USSR (Ukraine), 1932, 102mn 
Black and white, fiction
Ivan
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Иван

 

 Ivan

 Ivan

 
Directed by : Aleksandr DOVZHENKO (Александр ДОВЖЕНКО)
Writing credits : Aleksandr DOVZHENKO (Александр ДОВЖЕНКО)
 
Cast
K. BONDAREVSKY (К. БОНДАРЕВСКИЙ) ...Le Komsomolsk d’Ivan
Mikhail GAIVORONSKY (Михаил ГАЙВОРОНСКИЙ)
Dmitry GOLUBINSKY (Дмитрий ГОЛУБИНСКИЙ) ...Le secrétaire du comité du parti
M. GORNATKO (М. ГОРНАТКО)
Aleksandr KHVYLIA (Александр ХВЫЛЯ)
Pyotr MASOKHA (Пётр МАСОХА) ...Ivan
P. PASTUSHKOV (П. ПАСТУШКОВ)
Stepan SHAGAIDA (Степан ШАГАЙДА) ...Le père d'Ivan
Stepan SHKURAT (Степан ШКУРАТ) ...Le tire au flanc
Yura TERESHKO (Юра ТЕРЕШКО)
L. YAROSHENKO (Л. ЯРОШЕНКО)
A. ZAPOLSKY (А. ЗАПОЛЬСКИЙ) ...Le chef de chantier
 
Cinematography : Daniil DEMUTSKY (Даниил ДЕМУЦКИЙ), Yuri EKELCHIK (Юрий ЕКЕЛЬЧИК), Mikhail GLIDER (Михаил ГЛИДЕР)
Production design : Yuri KHOMAZA (Юрий ХОМАЗА)
Music : Igor BELZA (Игорь БЭЛЗА), Boris LIATOSHINSKY (Борис ЛЯТОШИНСКИЙ), Yuli MEITUS (Юлий МЕЙТУС)
Sound : Aleksandr BABY (Александр БАБИЙ)
Companies : Ukrainfilm
Release Date in Russia : 06/11/1932
 

Awards :
Prix au Festival de Venise, 1934

Plot synopsis
Driven to near-suicidal depression by the rather cool acceptance of EARTH, Dovzhenko followed up his masterwork with IVAN, his first experience with sound cinema, which Dovzhenko seemed to accept and master more readily than some of his Soviet contemporaries. Like EARTH, IVAN concerns itself with the natural rhythms of country life disrupted by the beat of the looming industrialization. The latter is represented here by a river dam, a grand and awesome project the fruits of which Dovzhenko curiously withholds from the viewer. Etched against this monumental project is a story of a country lad's progress from a peasant hut to a workers' school, but as in Dovzhenko's other films, IVAN seeks to address the danger and effects of a disrupted natural harmony. "Despite the change in his medium IVAN is consistent with the growth of Dovzhenko's method. This is clear, not only in its beauties - in the introductory poem to the Dnieper, in the magnificent sense of space at the construction site, day and night, in the sculptural figures of workers there, and in the images of pain. . . . There is, aside from these visual beauties, Dovzhenko's ceaseless search for simplicity of statement...." - Jay Leyda, Kino
Source : www.seagullfilms.com
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Pessac International History Film Festival, Pessac (France), 2018
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005

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