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Cast
Mikhail Klimov | As: | |
Klavdiya Polovikova | As: | |
Vera Alyokhina | As: | |
Natalia Sadovskaya | As: | |
Ivan Novoseltsev | As: |
Storyline
Working with children led Barskaya to create superb direct sound and an inspired style of shooting. Don’t look for conventional cinematic syntax here. The film is chaotic in the way that Soviet films still knew how to be, and Langlois couldn’t help but be seduced by its rebellious spirit, its anarchy and love of children, comparable to Vigo’s Zero de conduite. As well as being a film made with and for children, it offers a complex take on Western society. Pre-Nazi Germany is not named as such but is carefully reconstructed, possibly under advice from Karl Radek, and children offer a playful reflection of class struggle – doubly excluded, as proletarians and as minors. “They play in the same way that they live”, one intertitle says. The interaction between their comical games and the yet more ludicrous ones played by adults is developed on several levels.
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Cast
Mikhail Klimov |
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Klavdiya Polovikova |
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Vera Alyokhina |
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Natalia Sadovskaya |
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Ivan Novoseltsev |
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Vladimir Mikhaylov |
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Anna Chekulaeva |
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Vladimir Uralskiy |
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Evgeniy Tokmakov |
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Directed By
Margarita Barskaya |
Director |
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Writing Credits
Margarita Barskaya |
Writer |
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Production Crew
Edited By
Costume and Makeup
Sound
Vissarion Shebalin |
Original Music Composer |
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David Blok |
Original Music Composer |
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Visual Effects
Camera
Sarkis Gevorkyan |
Director of Photography |
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Georgi Bobrov |
Director of Photography |
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Lighting
Art Department
Vladimir Egorov |
Production Design |
Other Crew
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