Boris BARNET
Борис БАРНЕТ
Boris BARNET
Konstantin YUDIN
Константин ЮДИН
Konstantin YOUDINE
USSR, 1957, 100mn 
Colour, fiction
A Wrestler and a Clown
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Борец и клоун

 

 Le Lutteur et le clown

 Borets i kloun

 
Directed by : Boris BARNET (Борис БАРНЕТ), Konstantin YUDIN (Константин ЮДИН)
Writing credits : Nikolay POGODIN (Николай ПОГОДИН)
 
Cast
Ia AREPINA (Ия АРЕПИНА)
Stanislav CHEKAN (Станислав ЧЕКАН) ...Ivan Poddoubny, le lutteur
Aleksandr_2 MIKHAYLOV (Александр_2 МИХАЙЛОВ) ...Anatoli Dourov, le clown
Boris PETKER (Борис ПЕТКЕР)
Grigori SHPIGEL (Григорий ШПИГЕЛЬ)
Anatoli SOLOVIEV (Анатолий СОЛОВЬЕВ)
Georgi VITSIN (Георгий ВИЦИН)
 
Cinematography : Sergey POLUIANOV (Сергей ПОЛУЯНОВ)
Production design : B. ERDMAN (Б. ЭРДМАН), Vasili SHCHERBAK (Василий ЩЕРБАК)
Music : Yuri BIRIUKOV (Юрий БИРЮКОВ)
Sound : Viktor ZORIN (Виктор ЗОРИН)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 22,1 millions of spectators
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
Odessa at the turn of 20-th century. Ivan Poddubny, a longshore-man, and Anatoly Durov, a clown, are employed at Odessa circus. They are far from glory yet and they are both exploited by the circus masters and face meanness and craftiness. In Petersburg Poddubny looses a wrestle by refusing to fight with Bouchet, a Frenchman who has rubbed oil into his skin. Having received an emotional stress he decides to quit sport. But returns and wins the fight with Bouchet in Paris.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Sport films, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Rétrospective Boris Barnet à la Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2024
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2016
- 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' Festival, Bologna (Italy), 2011
- International Film Festival "Ciné Junior", Val de Marne (France), 2010
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1988

Photos and videos
 
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