“Krosh Holidays” is a Soviet four-part television film. Filmed based on the eponymous novel and script by Anatoly Rybakov . The film was shot in Moscow and Zaporozhye in 1979.
| Krosh Holidays | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | adventure movie Detective film Family Film |
| Producer | Grigory Aronov |
| Author script | Anatoly Rybakov |
| In the main cast | Vasily Funtikov Vladimir Koretsky |
| Operator | Evgeny Anisimov |
| Composer | Isaac Schwartz |
| Film company | Creative Association "Screen" |
| Duration | 275 minutes |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | |
| Year | 1980 |
| IMDb | ID 0229905 |
Content
Story
The events of the film take place in the USSR in 1979.
Sergei Krasheninnikov, nicknamed Krosh, is a Moscow schoolboy. He spends his summer holidays without his parents on vacation. Bored Krosh is invited to visit by his housemate, art critic Vladimir Nikolaevich Lesnikov, Veen, who collects Japanese miniature figures - netsuke . Lesnikov’s company also includes classmate Krosha Vera, Krosh’s housemate Igor and Kostya Marchenko. Igor and Kostya, for financial rewards, help Lesnikov collect netsuke, and Veen offers Krosh to join them. Krosh agrees, and a new life begins for him: together with Kostya and Igor, he is looking for figures for the Veen collection. Lesnikov tells Krosh that his main goal is to get the “Drawing Boy” figure in his collection, which was in the collection of Professor Mavrodaki, and if Krosh helps him with this, he will give him a stereo tape recorder. Lesnikov also offers Krosh to make friends with Kostya, explaining that he has a bad relationship with his mother and stepfather and needs a real friend. Krosh is fond of searches for carvings, but refuses monetary reward, causing the disapproval of Igor and Kostya. Soon, Krosh begins to understand that Vladimir Nikolaevich is actually a hypocritical, deceitful and unclean person, and he attracts adolescents only to use them to find a common language with collectors and elderly people living in his vicious circle. Having once witnessed how Vladimir Nikolayevich through his assistants shamelessly deceives a feeble pensioner, Krosh leaves the company.
Having come close to Kostya, Sergey learns that he is the son of Professor Mavrodaki, who at one time was one of the most prominent collectors and experts on netsuke in the USSR. After his untimely death, the pearl of his collection - “The Drawing Boy” [1] [2] also disappeared. Krosh, his friend Pyotr Shmakov and Kostya arrange an entire investigation and restore the entire chain of events of the past. It turns out the following. As a student of Professor Mavrodaki, in 1963, Veen replaced some of the figures at the exhibition of his collection with copies, as a result of which a huge scandal erupted. In addition, Veen (under the pseudonym Maximov) published a critical article about Mavrodaki, accusing him of incompetence. All this crippled the professor’s health, and soon he dies of a heart attack. Professor Mavrodaki presented the “Drawing Boy” to his son for his birth, only Kostya for the time being did not know what secret this figure hid. The guys also find out that Veen asked Krosh to make friends with Kostya only in order to gain access to his house and tell which netsuke from the Mavrodaki collection remained in the family. When the truth is revealed, the guys leave Veen. At the end of the film, Kostya, in gratitude, is ready to give “The Drawing Boy” to Krosh, but he refuses.
At the same time, there is a love line in the film: Krosh and Peter are in love with Zoya, a saleswoman for a shoe store, and try to look after her, but in the end she marries another.
Cast
- Vasily Funtikov - Sergey Krasheninnikov (Krosh)
- Vladimir Koretsky - Vladimir Nikolaevich Lesnikov (Veen)
- Gennady Kuznetsov - Konstantin Marchenko (Boxer)
- Vladimir Sirota - Peter Shmakov
- Vladimir Salnikov - Igor
- Olga Bityukova - Vera
- Boris Gusakov - artist Krasnukhin
- Vera Novikova - Zoya
- Tatyana Pavlutskaya - Paradise
- George Svetlani - Fedosy Vikentievich, restorer
- Yuri Katin-Yartsev - visitor of the exhibition
- Vladimir Zamansky - Kostya's stepfather
- Lyubov Strizhenova - mother of Kostya
- Georgy Tusuzov - reader in the library
- Elena Tyapkina - widow (credited as E. Tyapkina)
- Nina Ter-Osipyan - Elena Sergeevna
- Vitaly Yakovlev - a bully near the hotel
- Vladimir Burlakov - a collector of chewing gum labels
- Vladimir Kachan - sports commentator
- Zinovy Gerdt - voice-overs
Camera crew
- Script writer: Anatoly Rybakov
- Stage Director: Grigory Aronov
- Director of photography: Evgeny Anisimov
- Artists: Ivan Tartynsky and Vasily Zachinyaev
- Composer: Isaac Schwartz
- Songwriter in the third series: Bulat Okudzhava ; performer - Vladimir Kachan
- Conductor: Emin Khachaturian
Technical Data
- Production: Creative Association “Screen”
- 4-series, television feature film, color
- Image Format: 4: 3 (1.33: 1)
- The film was shot on the film of the Shostka chemical plant " SVEMA "
- Original language: Russian
- Duration: 275 minutes.
- DVD Edition: October 22, 2009; Distributor : Close-up; 2 disks; Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Notes
- ↑ In reality, the netsuke “The Boy Painting Ame-no Uzume ” by Hasegawa Ikko is stored in the Hermitage (Retrieved March 5, 2015)
- ↑ Hermitage Museum Collection (Retrieved March 5, 2015)
Links
- Krosh Holidays on the Internet Movie Database
- Words of the song of B. Okudzhava “Not thirty years, but three hundred years I’ve been going, you imagine ...”
One of the musical themes also sounds in the film "Golden Mine." Composer Isaac Schwartz considered it possible to use the melody in two films that were released almost simultaneously.
Literature
- EAT. Karpushina, A. Vystorobets. Television feature films for children and fairy-tale films: an annotated catalog . - State Radio and Television Fund, 2002 .-- S. 63. - 231 p.