Mikhail KALATOZOV
Михаил КАЛАТОЗОВ
Mikhaïl KALATOZOV
USSR, 1954, 102mn 
Colour, fiction
True Friends
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Верные друзья

 

 Trois hommes sur un radeau

 Vernye druzya

 
Directed by : Mikhail KALATOZOV (Михаил КАЛАТОЗОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr GALICH (Александр ГАЛИЧ), Konstantin ISAEV (Константин ИСАЕВ)
 
Cast
Aleksandr BORISOV (Александр БОРИСОВ)
Boris CHIRKOV (Борис ЧИРКОВ)
Aleksey GRIBOV (Алексей ГРИБОВ)
Liliya GRITSENKO (Лилия ГРИЦЕНКО)
Vasili MERKURIEV (Василий МЕРКУРЬЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Mark MAGIDSON (Марк МАГИДСОН)
Production design : Aleksey PARKHOMENKO (Алексей ПАРХОМЕНКО)
Music : Tikhon KHRENNIKOV (Тихон ХРЕННИКОВ)
Sound : Valery POPOV (Валерий ПОПОВ)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 30,9 millions of spectators
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
A lyric comedy. The three friends from Moscow suburb grew up and each of them got a certain position in life. Twenty years later they decided to meet and go rafting together on a vacation. Everyone derived something important from the most unexpected adventures they got into, and one of the friends met his long loved woman and was convinced of mutual feelings.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Les dix meilleurs films soviétiques des années 1950, Boris EGOROV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2023
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Best Soviet films according to Russia Beyond, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2017
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2009

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