719 PRINTS I NISHCHI (THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER)
1972, 73 min., color
Adventure
Director: Vadim Gauzner, screenplay: Alexei Yakovlev, camera: Oleg Kukhovarenko, production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Oleg Karavaichuk, sound: Mikhail Lazarev
Cast: Vladimir Smirnov, Yuri Astafyev, Ivan Krasko, Maya Bulgakova, Alexander Sokolov, Marina Neyelova, Rolan Bykov, Oleg Borisov, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Gennadi Poloka
Based on the novel of the same title by Mark Twain.
720 PYATAYA CHETVERT (THE FIFTH QUARTER)
1972, 87 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Grigori Aronov, screenplay: Mikhail Kurayev, camera: Eduard Rozovski, production designer: Yuri Kulikov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Seryozha Gorbovski, Igor Urumbekov, Yuri Tolubeyev, Igor Dobryakov, Oleg Belov
Loosely based on the story of the same title by Georgi Mikhasenko.
During his vacation, the thirteen-year schoolboy Anton Zorin went to visit his elder brother Leonid involved in the construction of a hydropower plant in Siberia. There he met and made friends with some wonderful people. Life set him certain tasks and taught certain lessons, putting the teenager through his “fifth quarter”.
721 SINIYE ZAITSY (THE BLUE HARES)
1972, 69 min., color, wide screen
Musical comedy
Director: Vitaly Aksyenov, screenplay: Mark Rozovski, camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Maxim Dunayevski, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Alexander Filippenko, Valentina Telichkina
The circus clown Sasha makes a fascinating journey about the country, getting acquainted with the culture and original art of various indigenous peoples.
722 TABACHNY KAPITAN (THE TOBACCO CAPTAIN)
1972, 80 min., color
Musical comedy
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Vladimir Vorobyev, camera: Alexander Dibrivny, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Grigori Elbert
Cast: Vladlen Davydov, Nataliya Fateyeva, Nikolai Trofimov, Sergei Filippov, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Georgi Vitsyn, Yevgeni Shapin
Loosely based on the play of the same title by Nikolai Aduyev.
Peter I sends Anton Svinyin, a son of a boyar accompanied by his manservant, to Holland to study navigation. But abroad, Anton just enjoys himself to abandon, sending his servant to attend his lessons.
Yet, the time comes to return to his motherland, where Tsar Pyotr holds Svinyin to the test...
723 UCHITEL PENIYA (THE SINGING-MASTER)
1972, 86 min., color, wide screen
Musical comedy
Director: Naum Bierman, screenplay: Emil Braginski, camera: Alexander Chirov, production designers: Victor Volin, Yevgeni Gukov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Boris Khutoryanski
Cast: Andrei Popov, Lyudmila Ivanova, Irina Alferova, Yevgeni Yevstigneyev, Alexander Demyanenko, Lyudmila Arinina, Georgi Shtil, Olga Volkova, Vera Titova, Nikolai Boyarski
Yefrem Nikolayevich Solomatin is vivacious and witty. He cherishes an everlasting love for music and for his vocation, pedagogy, dreaming of establishing schools with a thorough musical training. Unobtrusively, tactfully, engaging his sense of humor, he is nourishing the love for music, life, and people in his students...
724 A VY LYUBILI KOGDANIBUD? (HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE?)
1973, 84 min., color, wide screen
Comedy
Director: Igor Usov, screenplay: Oleg Mitin, camera: Alexander Dibrivny, production designer: Igor Vuskovich, misic: Igor Tsvetkov, sound: Grigory Elbert
Cast: Alla Maltseva, Vladimir Puchkov, Lyudmila Shagalova, Sergei Filippov, Georgy Vitsin, Panteleimon Krymov, Yelena Anderegg
Mothers and fathers always know best whom their children should be in love with... however, as often as not children fail to agree with their parents on this point. Mother thinks that Mitya should love Lilya, whereas Mitya is in love with Olya... and this gives rise to the conflict in this amusing comedy.
725 BLOKADA (THE SIEGE)
1973, Film I — “Luzhsky Rubezh” (“Luga Line of Defense”), 109 min., Film II — “Pulkovsky Meridian” (“Pulkovsky Meridian”), 76 min.; color, wide format
Drama
Director: Mikhail Yershov, screenplay: Arnold Vitol, Alexander Chakovsky, camera: Anatoly Nazarov, production designer: Mikhail Ivanov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Irina Volkova, song lyrics: Mikhail Matusovsky
Cast: Yuri Solomin, Yevgeny Lebedev, Irina Akulova, Lev Zolotukhin, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Mikhail Ulyanov, Boris Gorbatov, Daniil Sagal, Juozas Budraitis, Vladimir Zeldin
Based on a novel of the same title by Alexander Chakovsky.
The story is built around one of the most tragic pages of the Great Patriotic War, i.e. the siege of Leningrad.
The plot features the great battle for the city, the headquarters activities, everyday life at the front-line, and the Leningraders’ heroic labor efforts in the besieged city.
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The film was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers’ State Premium of the RSFSR (1980).
726 VOZVRASCHENNY GOD (THE YEAR RETURNED)
1973, 25 min., b/w
Melodrama
Director: Mikhail Ordovsky, screenplay: Vladimir Maramzin, Mikhail Ordovsky, camera: Nikolai Zhilin, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Georgy Firtich, sound: Betty Livshitz
Cast: Ivan Dmitriyev, Nikolai Volkov, Yevgeny Leonov
An unusual story centered on the unexpected return to an elderly engine-driver of a year of his life “loaned” from him by somebody long ago...
727 VSADNIK BEZ GOLOVY (HEADLESS RIDER)
1973, 103 min., color, wide format
Adventure
Director: Vladimir Weinshtock, screenplay: Vladimir Vladimirov, Pavel Finn, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designers: Grachiya Mekinyan, Yakov Rivosh, misic: Nikita Bogoslovsky, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Lyudmila Savelyeva, Oleg Vidov, Alehandro Lugo, Eslinda Nunyez, Alexander Milokosty, Ivan Petrov, Arne Yksyla
Based on a novel of the same title by Mayne Reid.
Texas. Middle of the 19th century. End of war, resulting in the Americans drawing the indigenous Indian inhabitants off their native lands. This is the background setting off the love story of Morris Gerald, the freedom-loving mustanger, and Louise Pointdeckster, the daughter of a plantation owner.
728 GDE ETO VIDANO, GDE ETO SLYKHANO (UNSEEN AND UNHEARD OF)
1973, 4 novelettes almanac based on short stories by Viktor Dragunsky
1. GDE ETO VIDANO, GDE ETO SLYKHANO (UNSEEN AND UNHEARD OF)
26 min., color
Comedy
Director: Boris Gorlov, screenplay: Maria Zvereva, camera: Rostislav Davydov, production designer: Larisa Shilova, misic: Isaac Schwartz, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Seryezha Krupenikov, Alesha Sirotkin, Andrei Petrov, Antonina Pavlycheva
Denis Korablev, a boy in his early years of school who lacks musical talent, volunteers to render popular satirical verse (chastushki) in a morning performance at his school; the following transpires...
2. KAPITAN (CAPTAIN)
31 min., color
Comedy
Director: Ayan Shakhmalieva, screenplay: Marina Zvereva, camera: Boris Timkovsky, production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Isaac Schwartz, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Petya Moseyev, Rolan Bykov, Alesha Sirotkin, Rita Sergeyecheva, Valentina Telichkina
Denis Korablev, a cheerful boy dreaming of faraway lands, finally meets his “old sea-dog” of an uncle who is a sea captain.
3. PODZORNAYA TRUBA (SPYGLASS)
19 min., color
Comedy
Director: Mark Genin, screenplay: Valery Popov, camera: Vladimir Burykin, production designer: Marxen Gaukhman-Sverdlov, misic: Vladlen Chistyakov, sound: Tigran Silayev
Cast: Sasha Mikhailov, Lyenya Mikhailov, Rita Sergeyecheva, Seryezha Godunov, Klara Luchko, Oleg Basilashvili
Weary of their son’s pranks, Denis Korablev’s parents have come up with a “spyglass” which presumably enables them to keep constant watch over
young Denis...
4. POZHAR VO FLIGELE (FIRE IN THE ANNEX)
19 min., color
Comedy
Director: Yevgeny Tatarsky, screenplay: Valery Popov, camera: Henrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, music: Isaac Schwartz, sound: Konstantin Lashkov
Cast: Sasha Mihailov, Sasha Hmelnitsky, Oleg Dal, Liana Zhvania, Olya Bogdanova, Rita Sergeyecheva, Vitya Tatarsky, Elizaveta Vanchugova
Frolicsome Denis Korablev and his chum Misha Slonov are late to their class again. The boys seem to have a good reason: they had been helping to catch an escaped eagle belonging to school’s mini-zoo — but sure enough, nobody will believe them...
729 DVER BEZ ZAMKA (LOCKLESS DOOR)
1973, 92 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Adolph Bergunker, screenplay: Alexander Borschagovsky, camera: Viktor Karasyev, production designer: Aleksei Rudyakov, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Zhanna Prokhorenko, Yuri Kamorny, Lubov Sokolova, Irina Akulova, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Mikhail Medvedev, Aleksei Kozhevnikov, Yuri Goncharov, German Kolushkin
Right after his wedding Pyotr leaves on his first run as a ship’s captain, taking Dasha to stay with his mother in her village. Feeling ill at ease at her mother-in law’s, Dasha finds herself a job at the local dock, lodging at her place of work... On his return, Pyotr offends his wife by a foolish suspicion...
730 DOKER (DOCKER)
1973, 74 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Yuri Rogov, screenplay: Georgy Kholopov, camera: Yevgeny Mezentsev, Ernst Yakovlev, production designer: Mikhail Krotkin, misic: Alexander Mnatsakanyan, sound: Boris Andreyev
Cast: Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev, Mari Dzhanashiya, Nikolai Gritsenko, Yefim Kopelyan, Rolan Bykov, Yelena Sanayeva, Igor Yefimov
Based on a novel of the same title by Georgy Kholopov
A seventeen-year-old lad dreams of accomplishing a feat on a worldwide scale. But his everyday life involving a job in a harbor serves to convince him that there is always room for heroic feats and deeds.
731 ZDES NASH DOM (THIS IS WHERE OUR HOME IS)
1973, 135 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Sokolov, screenplay: Ignati Dvoretsky, camera: Vladimir Chumak, production designer: Viktor Volin, misic: Andrei Petrov, sound: Galina Golubeva
Cast: Vladimir Zamansky, Irina Miroshnichenko, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Pyotr Velyaminov, Vasily Merkuryev, Oleg Zhakov, Vsevolod Sanayev, Alexander Borisov, Fyodor Odinokov, Leonid Nevedomsky
The leading character is Alexei Cheshkov, a foundry engineer, — young, ambitious, self-assured, abrupt with a measure of straightforwardness, but a decent and honest person. He is a person of a new social structure — and ahead of those who stick to old-fashioned ways of doing things with use of habitual methods; hence the inevitable conflicts...
732 IGRA (THE GAME)
1973, 63 min., b/w
Director: Leonid Makarychev, screenplay: Alexander Basargin, Andrei Ladynin, camera: Nikolai Pokoptsev, production designer: Viktor Amelchenkov, misic: Vladislav Kladnitsky, sound: Boris Antonov
Cast: Kostya Grinyov, Vitya Bolshov, Larisa Baranova, Sasha Ivanov, Natasha Veselova, Andrei Galkin
733 ISPOLNYAYUSHCHY OBYAZANNOSTI (ACTING AS)
1973, 82 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Irina Povolotskaya, screenplay: Alexander Chervinsky, camera: Valery Fedosov, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, sound: Eleonora Kazanskaya
Cast: Viktor Fokin, Yelena Prudnikova, Natalya Martinson, Tatyana Peltzer, Igor Vladimirov, Alisa Freindlich, Mikhail Kozakov, Yefim Kopelyan, Leonid Bronevoy, Rolan Bykov
The characters are a team of architects working in a design shop.
The team has recently been joined by Ilya Fyodorov, who is studying by correspondence and acting as architect. He is a mature person who knows what he is after... yet, his actions are often hard to explain and even paradoxical... Still, just as his colleagues, Ilya is committed to his job and is working on a new design.
734 KRAKH INZHENYERA GARINA (ENGIEER GARIN’S UTTER FAILURE)
1973, 4 parts, 247 min., color
Detective/adventure story
Director: Leonid Kvinikhidze, screenplay: Sergei Potepalov, camera: Vyacheslav Fastovich, production designer: Boris Bykov, misic: Vladislav Uspensky, sound: Galina Gorbonosova
Cast: Oleg Borisov, Alexander Belyavsky, Vasily Korzun, Nonna Terentyeva, Vladimir Tatosov, Yefim Kopelyan, Mikhail Volkov, Alexander Kaydanovsky, Grigory Gay, Valentin Nikulin, Algimantas Masyulis
Loosely based on the “Engineer Garin’s Hyperboloid”, science fiction novel by Alexei N. Tostoy.
Russia. The 1920-s. Pyotr Garin, a gifted engineer, has invented a unique apparatus — a hyperboloid emitting a “lethal ray” of great destructive power. With its help, Garin is out to conquer the world.
735 OPOZNANIYE (THE IDENTIFICATION)
1973, 92 min., b/w, wide screen
Political drama
Director: Leonid Menaker, screenplay: Adkady Poltorak, Yevgeny Zaitsev, Leonid Menaker, camera: Vladimir Kovzel, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Yakov Vaisburd, sound: Mikhail Lazarev
Cast: Astrida Kayrisha, Yuris Strenga, Olgert Kroders, Leonhard Merzin, Nikolai Annenkov, Bruno Freindlich, Georgy Shtil, Yevgenya Vetlova, Larisa Pashkova, Gleb Plaksin, Mikhail Yekaterininsky
Baron Karl Ludwig von Oster, owner of a vast concern, one of the industrial tycoons of the Federal Republic of Germany sentenced in the course of Nurnberg Trial, has been released by the American military administration and is busy testing a new type of weapon. The story is built around the battle fought in court by the military criminal and the journalist Ingrid Kyn.
736 O TEKH, KOGO POMNYU I LYUBLYU (OF THOSE I REMEMBER AND CHERISH)
1973, 80 min., color, wide screen
Melodrama
Directors: Anatoly Vekhotko, Natalya Troschenko, screenplay: Budimir Metalnikov, camera: Alexander Chechulin, production designer: Valery Yurkevich, misic: Sergei Slonimsky, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov, Galina Lukina
Cast: Valery Zolotukhin, Yekaterina Vasilyeva, Viktoria Fyodorova, Yevgenya Sabelnikova, Artem Inozemtsev, Violetta Zhukhimovich, Nadezhda Karpushina, Lyudmila Staritsina
Loosely based on “The Girl Team”, documentary story by Pavel Zavodchikov and Sergei Samoylov
The picture unfolds the life stories of six girls: their wartime lives, their joys and hardships, their loves and heroic deeds.
737 OTKRYTAYA KNIGA (AN OPEN BOOK)
1973, 2 parts, Part I — 91 min., Part II — 90 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Vladimir Fetin, screenplay: Veniamin Kaverin, Natalya Ryazantseva, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, production designer: Semyon Malkin, misic: Vasily Solovyev-Sedoy, sound: Gennadi Korkhovoy
Cast: Lyudmila Chursina, Anya Aleksakhina, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Alexander Demyanenko, Fyodor Nikitin, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Vatslav Dvoretsky, Lev Durov, Eleonora Shahkova, Yefim Kopelyan
Based on Veniamin Kaverin’s novel of the same title
The picture is focused on Tatyana Vlasenkova, an outstanding scientist, who is an intelligent, energetic and tough woman. She is a fighter by nature, who won’t put up with meanness or callousness, while possessed of a sensitive heart and a delicate and susceptible soul...
738 PLOKHOY KHOROSHY CHELOVEK (A BAD GOOD PERSON)
1973, 100 min., color, wide screen
Drama
Written and directed by: Iosif Heifitz, camera: Henrich Marandzhyan, production designer: Isaac Kaplan, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Igor Vigdorchik
Cast: Oleg Dal, Vladimir Vysotsky, Lyudmila Maksakova, Anatoly Papanov, Anatoly Azo, Yuri Medvedev, Georgy Korolchuk, Lubov Malinovskaya, Igor Yefimov, Anhel Gutierrez, Andrei Apsolon
Loosely based on “Duel”, a story by Anton Chekhov
A dramatic story about the relationship of two young people, Layevsky and von Koren, their implacability and antagonistic natures resulting in a duel. The action unfolds in the 1890-s in a small town in the south of Russia.
739 PRAKTIKANT (TRAINEE)
1973, 22 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Sergei Danilin, screenplay: Tatyana Kaletskaya, camera: Valery Mironov, production designer: Ivan Ivanov, misic: Nikolai Martynov, sound: Yevgeny Nesterov
Cast: Yevgeny Shesterkov, Vasily Korzun, Igor Simakov, Anastas Smolensky, Nadezhda Gorlova
A student of an oil business technical school has been sent to a oil mining rig in the northern taiga for on-the-job training. In these tough conditions, the young man is not just putting his professional skills to test, but also building up his personality.
740 SLOMANNAYA PODKOVA (A BROKEN HORSE SHOE)
1973, 80 min., color, wide screen
Detective
Director: Semyon Aranovich, screenplay: Vladimir Vladimirov, Pavel Finn, camera: Yevgeny Shapiro, Dmitry Dolinin, production designer: Yuri Pugach, misic: Romuald Grinblat, sound: Harry Belenky
Cast: Sergei Yursky, Marina Neyelova, Vladimir Razumovsky, Vitautas Paukshte, Bronyus Babkauskas, Janis Tooming, Stanislav Sokolov, Valentin Skulme, Lev Lemke, Vladimir Tatosov
Loosely based on “Drama in Liflandia”, a story by Jules Vernes.
Jules Ardan, a French aeronaut travelling on a balloon, happens to find himself in Revel. Here he meets Doctor Peterson and his daughter Leida. Leida’s fiance is being pursued by the gendarmes. Banker Schmidt’s son is murdered in the city; the suspect is Peterson... Jules Ardan undertakes to investigate the crime...
741 SOLYONY PYES (SALTY DOG)
1973, 68 min., color
Melodrama
Director: Nikolai Koshelev, screenplay: Fyodor Knorre, camera: Alexei Gambaryan, production designer: Boris Burmistrov, misic: Vladislav Uspensky, sound: Asya Zvereva
Cast: Vladimir Menshov, Tatyana Shestakova, Nikolai Lavrov, Boris Arakelov, Vitautas Paukshte, Viktor Perevalov, Nadezhda Zhilinskaya, Nikolai Kuzmin, Tamara Urzhumova
It so happened that a homeless dog, a clever mongrel, was picked up in a port by Soviet sailors who named him Salty. During a brief stay in one of the ports, the favorite of the crew fails to return on board, and they have to cast off without him...
742 STARIYE STENY (OLD WALLS)
1973, 96 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Viktor Tregubovich, screenplay: Anatoly Grebnev, camera: Edward Rozovsky, production designer: Grachiya Mekinyan, misic: Georgy Portnov, sound: Irina Chernyakhovskaya
Cast: Lyudmila Gurchenko, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yevgenya Sabelnikova, Vera Kuznetsova, Yevgeny Kindinov, Fyodor Odinokov, Boris Arakelov, Boris Gusakov
Anna Georgiyevna is the director of a weaving factory in a small town in the vicinity of Moscow. Her work requires a lot of physical and mental effort and self-resignation. As it often happens, her private life has not turned out well, her daughter has grown up and moved out... Unexpectedly, what seemed like minor adventure in a health resort develops into a deep feeling.
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The film was awarded the Vasilyev Brothers’ State Premium of the RSFSR (1976).
743 UMNIYE VESCHI (CLEVER THINGS)
1973, 123 min., color
Fairy tale
Director: Anatoly Granik, screenplay: Anatoly Granik, Alexei Tverskoy, camera: Nikolai Stroganov, production designer: Mikhail Scheglov, misic: Nadezhda Simonyan, sound: Natalya Levitina
Cast: Sergei Parshin, Natalya Bogunova, Nikolai Kryukov, Yevgeny Vesnik, Alexander Demyanenko
Based on a fairy tale by Samuil Marshak.
744 TSEMENT (CEMENT)
1973, 2 parts, 125 min., color
Drama
Directors: Alexander Blank, Sergei Linkov, screenplay: Yevgeny Mitko, camera: Konstantin Ryzhov, production designer: Vasily Zachinyayev, misic:Nadezhda Simonyan, sound:
Cast: Lyudmila Zaitseva, Roman Gromadsky, Valentin Gaft, Bruno Freindlich, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Based on the novel of the same title by Fyodor Gladkov.
745 YA SLUZHU NA GRANITSE (I SERVE ON THE BORDER)
1973, 85 min., b/w, wide screen
Melodrama
Director: Naum Birman, screenplay: Alexander Rozen, Vladimir Menshov, camera: Alexei Chirov, production designer: Yevgeny Gukov, misic: Veniamin Basner, sound: Boris Khutoryansky
Cast: Borislav Brondukov, Yevgeny Karelskikh, Boris Scherbakov, Eleonora Shashkova, Anatoly Rudakov
Time of peace. Yet, at the border point where the State frontiers are being guarded, life is never quiet and routine, but rather intense and severe. Hence those who, whether intentionally or unintentionally, become members of this military family, undergo a test for courage and fortitude...
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