Leonid GOLOVNIA
Леонид ГОЛОВНЯ
Leonid GOLOVNIA
USSR, 1969, 86mn 
Black and white, fiction
Echo of Distant Snows
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Эхо далеких снегов

 

 L'Echo des neiges lointaines

 Ekho dalekikh snegov

 
Directed by : Leonid GOLOVNIA (Леонид ГОЛОВНЯ)
 
Cast
Vasili SHUKSHIN (Василий ШУКШИН)
 
Production : Mosfilm
 

Plot synopsis
Made after S. Voronin’s story “Two Lives”. The film main characters are explorers-railwaymen, who started to build BAM (Baikal-Amur Railway) in the 30s. Engineer Kostomarov was in opposition to section foreman Gradov, who did not want to take into consideration the taiga weather conditions. Because of their conflict the engineer was recalled to Leningrad and tried. But the War came. Kostomarov went to the front and died. The BAM building continued according to his project.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru