Plot synopsis

Three-year Bubby, son of unemployed person, searches on rubbish heaps every junk that can be sold. On these pitiful pence all family forces to live. Every day Bubby goes out "on work" in the enormous lacerated shoes of the senior brother-schoolboy.
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Commentaries

Образ ребенка в фильмах советских кинематографисток [L'image de l'enfant dans les films des cinéastes-femmes soviétiques], Sofiya KILDIGULOVA, hsedesign.ru, 2026

Les Souliers percés [1933, de Margarita Barskaïa] Un brillant "Zéro de conduite" russe, anthonyplu, senscritique.com, 2017

Selected in the following festivals or events :

- INHA, INALCO International conference: The Most Important of All Ages: Children, Childhood[s], and the Childlike in Soviet Cinema., Paris (France), 2026

- Childhood and Soviet cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026

- Moscow Women Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2025

- Pionnières du cinéma soviétique à la Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2020

- 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' Festival, Bologna (Italy), 2020

- The USSR of filmmakers at the Cinémathèque française. First part: 1917-1945, Paris (kinoglaz.fr), 2017

- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2008

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