Pavel ARSENOV
Павел АРСЕНОВ
Pavel ARSENOV
USSR, 1967, 70mn 
Black and white, fiction
Save the Drowning Man
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Спасите утопающего

 

 Sauvez celui qui se noie

 Spasite utopayushchego

 
Directed by : Pavel ARSENOV (Павел АРСЕНОВ)
Writing credits : Isai KUZNETSOV (Исай КУЗНЕЦОВ), Avenir ZAK (Авенир ЗАК)
 
Cast
Valentin BRYLEYEV (Валентин БРЫЛЕЕВ)
Mikhail DERZHAVIN (Михаил ДЕРЖАВИН)
Egor DIAKOV (Егор ДЬЯКОВ)
Tatyana GAVRILOVA (Татьяна ГАВРИЛОВА)
Lenya KARASEV (Леня КАРАСЕВ)
Svetlana KHARITONOVA (Светлана ХАРИТОНОВА)
Valery NOSIK (Валерий НОСИК)
Aleksandr SHIRVINDT (Александр ШИРВИНДТ)
Aleksey SMIRNOV (Алексей СМИРНОВ)
Andrey USHAKOV (Андрей УШАКОВ)
Yekaterina VASILIEVA (Екатерина ВАСИЛЬЕВА)
Georgi VITSIN (Георгий ВИЦИН)
 
Cinematography : Grair GARIBIAN (Грайр ГАРИБЯН)
Production design : Galina ANFILOVA (Галина АНФИЛОВА)
Music : Mikael TARIVERDIEV (Микаэл ТАРИВЕРДИЕВ)
Sound : Boris GOLEV (Борис ГОЛЕВ)
Production : Gorky Film Studio
 

Plot synopsis
The pioneer Andrei Vasilkov decided to become a hero and before the eyes of Czech tourists he «saved» Gulka, who could not swim. He had thoughtfully cut a hole in the bottom of the boat to drop into the water at the right moment. So now Andrei speaks at meetings, shares his experience, off ers advice… At the town water festival the «hero» who is already tired of the humdrum, avows that there was no heroic deed. Then Gulka makes a high dive, followed by Vasilkov….
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2009
- Venice International Film Festival, Venice (Italy), 2006