Aleksey GERMAN
Алексей ГЕРМАН
Alekseï GUERMAN
USSR, 1976, 101mn 
Black and white, fiction
Twenty Warless Days
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Двадцать дней без войны

 

 Vingt jours sans guerre

 Dvadtsat dney bez voyny

 
Directed by : Aleksey GERMAN (Алексей ГЕРМАН)
Writing credits : Konstantin SIMONOV (Константин СИМОНОВ)
 
Cast
Yuri NIKULIN (Юрий НИКУЛИН) ...Lopatin
Lyudmila GURCHENKO (Людмила ГУРЧЕНКО) ...Nina Nikolayevna
Nikolay GRINKO (Николай ГРИНЬКО)
Mikhail KONONOV (Михаил КОНОНОВ)
Lyusyena OVCHINNIKOVA (Люсьена ОВЧИННИКОВА)
Aleksey PETRENKO (Алексей ПЕТРЕНКО)
Konstantin SIMONOV (Константин СИМОНОВ) ...Voice-over
Angelina STEPANOVA (Ангелина СТЕПАНОВА)
Yekaterina VASILIEVA (Екатерина ВАСИЛЬЕВА)
Lyudmila ZAITSEVA (Людмила ЗАЙЦЕВА)
 
Cinematography : Valery FEDOSOV (Валерий ФЕДОСОВ)
Production design : Yevgeni GUKOV (Евгений ГУКОВ)
Music : V. LAVROV (В. ЛАВРОВ)
Production : Lenfilm
Release date in Russia : 10/05/1977
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb, Chapaev.media
Release date in France : 1986-04-30, Site

Awards :
Prix de la critique au Festival de Rotterdam, 1987

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Bach Films

Plot synopsis
At the end of 1942, twenty days without war fell to the military correspondent Lopatin. He meant to forget all about the war in Tashkent, a city well away from the front-line; yet, the echo of the war will catch up with him anywhere...
Annual “George Sadoul” Award in France (1977).
Source www.lenfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Vingt grandes réalisations des studios Lenfilm, Alexandra GOUZEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2024
La guerre dans le cinéma soviétique, Éric AUNOBLE, ehne.fr, 2021
Aleksei German’s Historical Representations of Realities of the War in Trial on the Road and Twenty Days Without War, Assiya ISSEMBERDIYEVA, Kinokultura, 2020
Второй план в советском кино, Yevgeni MARGOLIT, seance.ru, 2012
Фронт и тыл (О фильме Алексея Германа Двадцать дней без войны), Mikhail YAMPOLSKY, kinozapiski.ru, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2021
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2015
- Rétrospective Alexeï Guerman à la Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2015
- Cycle "Quelle connerie la guerre" au Forum des images, Paris (France), 2014
- Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Sao Paulo (Brazil ), 2011
- Cinéma russe au Kursaal de Besançon, Besançon (France), 2011
- Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival, Estoril (Portugal), 2011
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2010
- Retrospective Russian cinema at the "Reflet Médicis", Paris (France), 2010
- Russian epopee in the Institut de l'image of Aix en Provence, Aix en Provence (France), 2010
- Festival "All our German", Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International debut film festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2010
- Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2010
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2008
- Rencontres cinématographiques de la Seine-Saint-Denis, Saint Denis (France), 2008
- Paris Russian Film Festival, Paris (France), 2008
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2002
- Fall Festival 1998, Paris (France), 1998
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 1986-04-30
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1977

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