Georgi DANELIYA
Георгий ДАНЕЛИЯ
Gueorgui DANELIA
USSR, 1979, 94mn 
Colour, fiction
The Autumn Marathon
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Осенний марафон

 

 Marathon d’automne

 Oseny marafon

 
Directed by : Georgi DANELIYA (Георгий ДАНЕЛИЯ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr VOLODIN (Александр ВОЛОДИН)
 
Cast
Oleg BASILASHVILY (Олег БАСИЛАШВИЛИ) ...Busykin
Natalya GUNDAREVA (Наталья ГУНДАРЕВА) ...Buzykin's wife
Evgeniy LEONOV (Евгений ЛЕОНОВ) ...Buzykin's neighbour
Borislav BRONDUKOV (Борислав БРОНДУКОВ)
Vladimir GRAMMATIKOV (Владимир ГРАММАТИКОВ)
Lyudmila IVANOVA (Людмила ИВАНОВА)
Nikolay KRIUCHKOV (Николай КРЮЧКОВ)
Norbert KUKHINKE (Норберт КУХИНКЕ)
Vadim MEDVEDEV (Вадим МЕДВЕДЕВ)
Marina NEYOLOVA (Марина НЕЕЛОВА)
Galina VOLSHEK (Галина ВОЛЧЕК)
 
Cinematography : Sergey VRONSKY (Сергей ВРОНСКИЙ)
Production design : Eleonora NEMECHEK (Элеонора НЕМЕЧЕК), Levan SHENGELIYA (Леван ШЕНГЕЛИЯ)
Music : Andrey PETROV (Андрей ПЕТРОВ)
Sound : Aleksandr POGOSIAN (Александр ПОГОСЯН)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 22,3 millions of spectators
 
Sites : IMDb, Kinopoisk
Awards :
First prize Festival international du film de comédie de l'Alpe d'Huez (ex Festival du film d'humour de Chamrousse), Alpe d'Huez (France), 1980
Pasinetti Award for Best Actor Evgeniy LEONOV , Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 1979
Pasinetti Award for Best Film Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 1979
Grand prix du Festival de l'Union Soviétique, 1980
DVD with subtitles
Editor : Image Entertainment
Editor : Ruscico
Plot synopsis
Talented teacher and interpreter Buzykin has a indecisive character. He can’t leave his wife for beloved woman, he can’t say no to his classmate, who use his talent, he abides home-brewed philosopher-drunkard, and when he decides to take the plunge he fails, since he is soft and gentle as wax.
 
Commentaries
Cinq films soviétiques où l’automne est l’un des personnages principaux, Anna POPOVA, Fenêtre sur la Russie, 2025
RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq films sur Saint-Pétersbourg que vous devez absolument voir, Elena BOBROVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
Санкт-Петербург в кино: 16 фильмов, снятых в городе на Неве [Saint-Pétersbourg au cinéma : 16 films tournés dans la ville sur la Neva], Тома ГАБРИЧИДЗЕ, soyuz.ru, 2017
Город в кино. История вопроса, Liubov ARKUS, Олег КОВАЛОВ, seance.ru, 2012
Le Festival du film d'humour Chamrousse mélancolique, Claude FRANCILLON, Le Monde, 1980
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Architecture and Social Life in Russian Cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Actors, actresses and stars, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024
- Russian or Soviet films awarded at Berlin, Cannes or Venice, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024
- Saison du cinéma russe 2015-2016, Lyon (France), 2015
- Russian film festival in Ajaccio, Ajaccio (France), 2015
- Les rencontres culturelles Russenko, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (France), 2015
- Festival des Films de Russie et d'Ailleurs, Geneva - Lausanne (Switzerland), 2014
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2011
- Moscow, St-Petersburg : two faces of Russia, Paris (France), 2010
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2008
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2006
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2004
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2004
- Festival international du film de comédie de l'Alpe d'Huez (ex Festival du film d'humour de Chamrousse), Alpe d'Huez (France), 1980
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 1979
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