Vasili SHUKSHIN
Василий ШУКШИН
Vassili CHOUKCHINE
USSR, 1964, 101mn 
Black and white, fiction
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 There Was A Lad

 Il était une fois un gars

 
Directed by : Vasili SHUKSHIN (Василий ШУКШИН)
Writing credits : Vasili SHUKSHIN (Василий ШУКШИН)
 
Cast
Bella AKHMADULINA (Белла АХМАДУЛИНА) ...Femme-journaliste
Lidia ALEKSANDROVA (Лидия АЛЕКСАНДРОВА) ...Nastia
Larisa BURKOVA (Лариса БУРКОВА) ...Katia Lizounova
Nikolay FEDORTSOV (Николай ФЕДОРЦОВ)
Leonid KURAVLYOV (Леонид КУРАВЛЕВ) ...Paskou Kolokolnikov
Rodion NAKHAPETOV (Родион НАХАПЕТОВ)
Ivan RYZHOV (Иван РЫЖОВ)
Nina SAZONOVA (Нина САЗОНОВА) ...Aninsiat
Anastasia ZUEVA (Анастасия ЗУЕВА)
 
Cinematography : Valery GINZBURG (Валерий ГИНЗБУРГ)
Production design : Aleksandr VAGICHEV (Александр ВАГИЧЕВ)
Sound : Valentin KHLOBYNIN (Валентин ХЛОБЫНИН)
Companies : Gorky Film Studio
Spectators : 27 millions of spectators
Release Date in Russia : 01/11/1964
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Premier prix au Festival national de l'Union Soviétique, 1964

Plot synopsis
Shukshin, the preeminent Soviet writer of the "rural" school (derevenschik), directs his own story about the progress of the affable country lad Pashka Kolokolnikov. Or, rather, several stories: Shukshin revels in the rhythms of folksy storytelling, its love of bizarre tangents and inspired fibs. He does so even while saluting his fellow Moscow intellectuals with the casting of poet Bella Akhmadulina in a small role as a reporter. Leonid Kuravlev, who plays Pashka, also stars in Panfilov's debut.
Source : www.seagullfilms.com
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2015
- Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2014
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2009
- Art and Russian cinema Festival Ruskoff, Nice (France), 2004