Stanislav ROSTOTSKY
Станислав РОСТОЦКИЙ
Stanislav ROSTOTSKI
USSR, 1968, 106mn 
Black and white, fiction
We'll Live Till Monday
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Доживем до понедельника

 

 Attendons jusqu'à lundi

 Dozhiviom do ponedelnika

 
Directed by : Stanislav ROSTOTSKY (Станислав РОСТОЦКИЙ)
Writing credits : Georgi POLONSKI (Георгий ПОЛОНСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Nina GREBESHKOVA (Нина ГРЕБЕШКОВА) ...Allotchka
Nina MENSHIKOVA (Нина МЕНЬШИКОВА) ...Svetlana Mikhalovna
Olga OSTROUMOVA (Ольга ОСТРОУМОВА) ...Rita Tcherkassova
Irina PECHERNIKOVA (Ирина ПЕЧЕРНИКОВА) ...Natacha
Sofia PILIAVSKAIA (Софья ПИЛЯВСКАЯ) ...L'institutrice
Liubov SOKOLOVA (Любовь СОКОЛОВА) ...Levikova
Igor STARYGIN (Игорь СТАРЫГИН) ...Kostia Batichtchev
Valentina TELEGINA (Валентина ТЕЛЕГИНА) ...Femme de ménage de l'école
Vyacheslav TIKHONOV (Вячеслав ТИХОНОВ) ...Ilya Tsemenovitch Melnikov
Olga ZHIZNEVA (Ольга ЖИЗНЕВА) ...La mère de Melnikov
Mikhail ZIMIN (Михаил ЗИМИН)
Valery ZUBAREV (Валерий ЗУБАРЕВ) ...Genka Chestopal
 
Cinematography : Vyacheslav SHUMSKY (Вячеслав ШУМСКИЙ)
Production design : Boris DULENKOV (Борис ДУЛЕНКОВ)
Music : Kirill MOLCHANOV (Кирилл МОЛЧАНОВ)
Sound : Aleksandr IZBUTSKY (Александр ИЗБУЦКИЙ)
Production : Gorky Film Studio
Spectators : 31 millions of spectators
 
Sites : IMDb, Chapaev.media

Awards :
Golden Award Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1969
Premier prix au Festival de Moscou, 1968
Meilleur film de l'année 1968 selon les lecteurs de Sovietski ekran

Plot synopsis
A lonely history teacher falls for an English teacher who was once his former student. Three days in the lives of the two, plus that of a literature instructor, are the subjects of this film that appeared at the 1969 Melbourne Film Festival. The history teacher deals with his wartime memories and takes care of his aging mother in addition to reaching out emotionally to the object of his affections.
Dan Pavlides, www.allmovie.com
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Квартира, класс, двор — и снова квартира: подростки советского кино в поисках настоящего продолженного [Les adolescents dans le cinéma soviétique], Ирина МАРГОЛИНА, kinoart.ru, 2023
Второй план в советском кино, Yevgeni MARGOLIT, seance.ru, 2012
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Thaw Films : 1953-1968, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2008
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1969