Grigori KOZINTSEV
Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ
Grigori KOZINTSEV
Leonid TRAUBERG
Леонид ТРАУБЕРГ
Leonid TRAUBERG
USSR, 1934, 98mn 
Black and white, fiction
Maxim's youth
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Юность Максима

 

 La Jeunesse de Maxime

 Yunost Maksima

 
Directed by : Grigori KOZINTSEV (Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ), Leonid TRAUBERG (Леонид ТРАУБЕРГ)
Writing credits : Grigori KOZINTSEV (Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ), Leonid TRAUBERG (Леонид ТРАУБЕРГ)
 
Cast
Boris BLINOV (Борис БЛИНОВ)
Boris CHIRKOV (Борис ЧИРКОВ) ...Maxime
Stepan KAIUKOV (Степан КАЮКОВ) ...Dema
Valentina KIBARDINA (Валентина КИБАРДИНА) ...Natacha
A. KULAKOV (А. КУЛАКОВ) ...Andreï
Mikhail TARKHANOV (Михаил ТАРХАНОВ) ...Polivanov
Pavel VOLKOV (Павел ВОЛКОВ) ...L’ouvrier
 
Cinematography : Andrey MOSKVIN (Андрей МОСКВИН)
Production design : Yevgeni ENEJ (Евгений ЕНЕЙ)
Music : Dmitry SHOSTAKOVICH (Дмитрий ШОСТАКОВИЧ)
Sound : Ilya VOLK (Илья ВОЛК)
Production : Lenfilm
Spectators : 16 millions of spectators
Restauration : Mosfilm (1965)
Release date in Russia : 27/01/1935
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
First prize Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1935

Plot synopsis
revolutionary. Part 1 of the “Maxim” trilogy. 1st Prize at the 1st Soviet IFF in Moscow (1935). For the trilogy, the main members of the crew and cast received the Stalin Prize (first class): G. Kozintsev, L. Trauberg, B. Chirkov (1941).
Source : www.lenfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Les quinze films étrangers et soviétiques préférés de Joseph Staline, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
Лента длиною в эпоху. Шедевры советского кино, Neya ZORKAYA, Bely Gorod, 2017
Второй план в советском кино, Yevgeni MARGOLIT, seance.ru, 2012
Кино в Петербурге. Петербург в кино, Anna KOVALOVA, seance.ru, 2011
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- The USSR of filmmakers at the Cinémathèque française. 1917-1945 : first and second part, Paris (France), 2017
- L'Année 36 au Forum des images, Paris (France), 2016
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2012
- Pordenone Silent Film Festival, Pordenone (Italy), 2011
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2011
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2007
- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 1935