“Drive” is a Soviet two-part television feature film , shot in 1978 on the basis of TO “Screen” . The genre of a film can be defined in the range from production drama to melodrama .
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Yuri Sergeev |
| Author script | Ignatius Butler |
| In the main cast | Alexander Parra Alexey Bulatov Tatyana Fedorova Irina Gosheva |
| Operator | Leo Bunin |
| Composer | Kirill Molchanov |
| Film company | Creative Association "Screen" |
| Duration | 134 minutes |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Year | 1978 |
Content
Story
Sergei Staroselsky, the head of the supply department of a large industrial city in the Far North , an important point on the Northern Sea Route, is promoted to Moscow as the head of the Ministry’s Supply Department. He will have to leave the places to which he gave more than 25 years of his life, to part with people who have worked with him for a long time.
The last day of Staroselsky’s tenure is coming, when his management team is to see him off. However, it’s impossible to say goodbye calmly - a difficult ice situation, difficulties with the escort of ships do not allow forgetting everyday worries. The closest employees of Staroselsky voluntarily or involuntarily feel that with his departure, in a sense, a whole era is leaving. This is the elderly and experienced first deputy Pliner, who expects that, with the change of head of department, he will apparently have to retire; this is an honest, cautious and prudent “eternal second” Yarantsev, unexpectedly refusing to take the post of head of the department; this is an ambitious and entrepreneurial young Chanyshev, on the contrary, not giving up the position that he should have given up.
Simultaneously with the end of his tenure, Staroselsky’s personal drama ends, falling in love with a woman for many years, who did not have the courage to leave her husband, who was at one time a close friend of Staroselsky. Finally, the last days at the previous work, the head of the supply department was forced to spend in the company of the novice journalist Tsyrenzhapova, a young woman with a failed personal life. She was given the task of writing material about the management and after four days of close communication, she has sincere admiration for the head of the department. Staroselsky will have to say goodbye to her. We have to survive this long last day ...
Literary basis
The script created by Ignatius Dvoretsky was based on his own play, “Seeing Off” (subtitle “Scenes from Modern Life in Two Parts”) [1] , which was first published by the AAAA in Moscow in 1975. In “Seeing Off”, as well as in other later plays of Dvoretsky, which appeared after “The Man from the Side” (1971), the main character of which is “the maximalist, demanding complete submission to the cause”, one can already see the orientation towards the hero as a “maximalist who perceives business as part of life, not life as a sacrifice to the cause. ” “Such a hero lives in harmony with independently developed rules of life, but striving to understand those around him” [2] .
“Seeing off” was staged on the stage of the Mayakovsky Moscow Theater [3] . In 1976-1977, the theater released an audio performance based on the play of Dvoretsky directed by B. Kondratiev and A. A. Goncharov , with the participation of Armen Dzhigarkhanyan (Staroselsky), Tatyana Doronina (Gorchakova), Vladimir Samoilov (Gorchakov), Alexander Khanov (Pliner), Svetlana Misery (Tsyrenzhapova), Yuri Gorobets (Yarantsev), Evgeny Lazarev (Chanyshev), Galina Anisimova (presenter) and Nadezhda Samoilova (secretary) [4] . Theatrical artist was E. G. Stenberg [5] .
According to some reports, the play was also staged at the Kazan Russian Bolshoi Drama Theater named after Kachalov (1976, directed by V. M. Portnov ) [6] , at the Russian Theater in Petrozavodsk [7] , at the Leningrad Maly Drama Theater (1976, directed by E. M Padwe ) [8] and others.
In criticism, an opinion was formed about the play of Dvoretsky not only as a purely production drama , but rather as a psychological drama or melodrama [9] .
Cast
- Alexander Parra - Sergey Staroselsky, Head of Supply Department
- Lyudmila Zaitseva - Lydia Gorchakova, the old love of Staroselsky
- Igor Ledogorov - Igor Gorchakov, Lydia’s husband, a longtime friend of Staroselsky
- Nikolay Volkov - Alexander Matveyevich Pliner, First Deputy Staroselsky
- Anatoly Grachev - Pavel Yarantsev, Deputy Staroselsky
- Alexey Bulatov - Boris Chanyshev, Deputy Staroselsky
- Tatyana Fedorova - Elena Tsyrenzhapova, journalist
- Irina Gosheva - Secretary of Staroselsky
Camera crew
- Director: Yuri Sergeev
- Scenario: Ignatius Butler
- Operator: Lev Bunin
- Composer: Kirill Molchanov
- Orchestra: State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography
- Conductor: Konstantin Krimets
Notes
- ↑ Butler I.M. Track: plays. - L .: Soviet writer, 1978
- ↑ Butler Ignatius (Israel) Moiseevich / Kozlova O. I. // Russian literature of the XX century. Prose writers, poets, playwrights: bibliographic dictionary: in 3 volumes / under. ed. N. N. Skatova. - M.: OLMA-PRESS Invest, 2005. - T. 1. A. — Zh. - 733 s. - S. 614
- ↑ Vladimir Khodiy. The last romantic of the theater // Province, No. 26712, April 01, 2014
- ↑ Ignatius Butler. Seeing off. Audio performance
- ↑ M. N. Stroeva. Bibliography
- ↑ Moscow Academic Theater named after Vl. Mayakovsky. Portnov Vladimir Mikhailovich
- ↑ Artists of Karelia. Pekhova E.K., Polenkov D.S., Polyakov V.O.
- ↑ Academic Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe. Repertoire. 1971-1980 Archived on November 19, 2012.
- ↑ Stroeva M.N. Seeing off // Evening Moscow , February 12, 1976, p. 3; Chepurov A.A. Ignatius Dvoretsky: playwright and his work. - L .: Soviet writer, 1989 .-- 315 p. - S. 248
Links
- " Seeing Off " on the Internet Movie Database