“Steppe” is a film by the Soviet director Sergei Bondarchuk , shot in the Khomutov steppe based on the novel by A.P. Chekhov .
| Steppe | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Sergey Bondarchuk |
| Author script | Sergey Bondarchuk |
| In the main cast | Oleg Kuznetsov Nikolay Trofimov Sergey Bondarchuk |
| Operator | Leonid Kalashnikov |
| Composer | Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov |
| Film company | The film studio "Mosfilm" . The first creative association |
| Duration | 134 min |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | Russian |
| Year | 1977 |
| IMDb | ID 0076761 |
Content
Cast
- Oleg Kuznetsov - Egorushka
- Vladimir Sedov - Kuzmichev
- Nikolay Trofimov - Father Christopher
- Sergey Bondarchuk - Emelyan
- Ivan Lapikov - Pantelei, the wanderer
- George Burkov - Vasya
- Stanislav Lyubshin - Konstantin Zvonyk
- Innokenty Smoktunovsky - Moysey Moiseevich
- Anatoly Vasiliev - Dymov
- Valery Zakharyev - Styopka
- Igor Kvasha - Solomon Moiseevich
- Lilian Malkin - Rose
- Victor Mamaev - Deniska
- Irina Skobtseva - Countess Dranitskaya
- Elena Savchenko - Nastasya Petrovna
- Natalya Andreichenko - a girl on sheaves
- Mikhail Gluzsky - Varlamov
- Mikhail Kokshenov - Kiryukha
- Vasily Livanov - Casimir
- Evgeny Gurov - shepherd
Work on the film
According to the director’s wife, S. F. Bondarchuk, who was in love with the novel “The Steppe”, dreamed of staging it for many years and did not stop working on the script from the beginning of the 1960s. The film adaptation was constantly postponed due to the director’s busyness with such epic productions as “ War and Peace ” and “ They Fought for the Motherland ”.
As in the story, the story of the trip of little Egorushka from his parents' house in the county town of N. Z-th province somewhere for admission to the gymnasium is given by the eyes of the protagonist - the child. The visual range of the picture is solved epically. When working on the image of Egorushka, the director turned to the memories of his own childhood.
Reaction to the film
The film was not very successful at the box office. Miron Chernenko in the book “Red Star, Yellow Star. (The cinematic history of Jewry in Russia) 1919-1999 ”blames the creators of the film“ the repulsive image of a Jew ” [1] , which, according to the author, gives away anti-Semitism . The film was highly praised by the director Sergey Yutkevich [2] :
Something wonderful happened. Everything that we saw on the screen is surprisingly Chekhov's, surprisingly accurate and at the same time completely non-illustrative following Chekhov line by line. This is an example of what happens when today's cinema takes on such complex things and when the artist cares extremely deeply about it, you can make a work on the screen that is completely equivalent to a literary work. This is a rare case ... It delights and surprises.
Technical Data
The film is color.
It was released in widescreen and widescreen versions.
Filmed on a 35 mm negative using the Universal Frame Format system.
Film length: 3666 meters.
Timing: 134 minutes.
Notes
- ↑ Miron Chernenko . “Red star, yellow star. (Cinematic History of Jewry in Russia) 1919-1999. "
- ↑ F. Razzakov. The death of Soviet cinema. Eksmo, 2008. p. 113.
Links
- The film "Steppe" in the online movie theater "Mosfilm"
- The film in the catalog of the film studio " Mosfilm "
- “ Soviet Screen ”, No. 12, 1978, “How good these exits to the steppe are!”, Georgy Kapralov