Things come to a head when it’s learned that the wormy Mark is not only a rapist and an adulterer but got his exemption through graft by falsely using Fyodor’s name. She applies herself as a nurse for the war effort, and feels miserable about what she did to Boris and feels the bitter resentment directed to her by Boris’ family. During another air-raid, Mark forcefully comes on to Veronica despite her slaps and shouts of “Nyet.” The self-hating Veronica marries him despite still loving Boris, as it’s implied she does so out of guilt and shame over the rape. Boris’ family take the orphan in, giving her Boris’ room. During an air-raid attack, Veronica’s parents die in their apartment after refusing to go into the subway shelter. Boris is shipped to the front, and she gets no mail from him. He delays telling Veronica, and when she learns she gets so angry that she misses saying goodbye during his farewell send off at home and at the assembling place for soldiers. He’s a dutiful factory worker, who patriotically volunteers when Germany attacks Russia in 1941. The opening scenes show the close love relationship between Veronica and Boris. Bogdanova) and an ill-tempered old maid doctor relation named Irina (S. Also living in the same apartment is the grandmother (A. It focuses on the impact of World War II on a struggling middle-class Moscow family consisting of a soldier Boris (Alexei Batalov ), his fiancée Veronica (Tatiana Samoilova, the great-niece of Stanislavsky), his surgeon father Fyodor (Vasily Merkuryev) and his draft-dodger concert pianist cousin Mark (Alexander Shvorin). The black-and-white photographed film features great crowd tracking shots by cinematographer Sergei Urusevsky.
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One of the first Russian films to shoot for a story about regular Russians is Mikhail Kalatozov’s (“I am Cuba”/”The Red Tent”) moving melodramatic war movie it’s adapted by Viktor Rozov from his own play. This allowed filmmakers to expand from making only Marxist-Leninist propaganda films. It came four years after Stalin’s death, and with the new head of state Nikita Khrushchev came a thaw in the cold war and an easing in censorship. It was the 1958 Palm d’Or winner at Cannes and Tatiana Samoilova won the award for Best Actress. Kharitonova (Irina) Runtime: 94 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Mikhail Kalatozov Criterion Collection 1957-Russia-in Russian with English subtitles) Vainberg cast: Tatiana Samoilova (Veronica), Alexei Batalov (Boris), Vasily Merkuryev (Fyodor Ivanovich), Alexander Shvorin (Mark), Svetlana Kharitonova (Irina), Valentin Zubkov (Stepan), Konstantin Nikitin (Volodya), Valentin Zubkov (Stepan), A. Rozov cinematographer: Sergei Urusevsky editor: M. (director: Mikhail Kalatozov screenwriter: Viktor Rozov/based on a play by V.
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