Elem KLIMOV
Элем КЛИМОВ
Elem KLIMOV
USSR, 1981, 128mn 
Colour, fiction
Farewell to Matyora / Farewell
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Прощание

 

 Les Adieux à Matiora

 Proshchanie

 
Directed by : Elem KLIMOV (Элем КЛИМОВ)
Writing credits : German KLIMOV (Герман КЛИМОВ), Larisa SHEPITKO (Лариса ШЕПИТЬКО), Rudolf TIURIN (Рудольф ТЮРИН)
 
Cast
Igor BEZIAEV (Игорь БЕЗЯЕВ)
Maya BULGAKOVA (Майя БУЛГАКОВА)
Mikhail BYCHKOV (Михаил БЫЧКОВ)
Galina DEMINA (Галина ДЕМИНА)
Lev DUROV (Лев ДУРОВ)
Najdan GENDUNOVA (Найдан ГЕНДУНОВА)
Yuri KATIN-YARTSEV (Юрий КАТИН-ЯРЦЕВ)
Leonid KRIUK (Леонид КРЮК)
Anna KUSTOVA (Анна КУСТОВА)
Denis LUPOV (Денис ЛУПОВ)
Liubov MALINOVSKAIA (Любовь МАЛИНОВСКАЯ)
Aleksey PETRENKO (Алексей ПЕТРЕНКО)
Nadezhda POGORISHNAIA (Надежда ПОГОРИШНАЯ)
Lyudmila POLIAKOVA (Людмила ПОЛЯКОВА)
Stefania STANIUTA (Стефания СТАНЮТА)
Vadim YAKOVENKO (Вадим ЯКОВЕНКО)
 
Cinematography : Aleksey RODIONOV (Алексей РОДИОНОВ), Yuri SKHIRTLADZE (Юрий СХИРТЛАДЗЕ), Sergey TARASKIN (Сергей ТАРАСКИН)
Production design : Viktor PETROV (Виктор ПЕТРОВ)
Music : Vyacheslav ARTEMOV (Вячеслав АРТЕМОВ), Alfred SHNITKE (Альфред ШНИТКЕ)
Sound : Boris VENGEROVSKY (Борис ВЕНГЕРОВСКИЙ)
Production : Mosfilm
Release date in Russia : 1982
 
format : 35 mm
Sites : Allociné, IMDb, Kinpoisk

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico.
Langues : RU EN FR
Sous-titres : EN FR DE RU ES IT
Editor : Potemkine. 2017. Titre : Coffret Larissa Chepitko - Elem Klimov.
Ce coffret contient 5 films :
- Bienvenue, ou Accès interdit aux personnes non autorisées
- Raspoutine, l'agonie (URSS 1974, 152')
- Les Ailes (URSS 1966, 103')
- L'Ascension (URSS 1976, 110')
- Les Adieux à Matiora

Plot synopsis
The film is based on the novel «Farewell with Matyora» written by V. Rasputin and tells us about a dramatic flooding of Siberian village in connection with a building of the hydroelectric plant. It is very tragically for senior citizens to part from Matyora. Several old women who postponed their departure from day to day had not time enough to leave the island. The fatherland went to the bottom of the river became their grave.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Silence ! Elles tournent. Larissa Chepitko, élégie soviétique., Joël CHAPRON, Esther BREJON, revusetcorriges.com, 2022
Les Adieux à Matiora de Elem Klimov, Olivier BITOUN, dvdclassik.com, 2017
Klimov + Chépitko, Françoise NAVAILH, Kinoglaz.fr, 2017
 
Reviews on Kinopoisk

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2024
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2013
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2007
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 1999
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1987

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