Viktor GRES
Виктор ГРЕСЬ
Viktor GRES
USSR, 1980, 74mn 
Colour, fiction
Chernaya kuritsa, ili podzemnye zhiteli
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Черная курица, или подземные жители

 

 The Black Hen, or Living Underground

 La Poule noire, ou les habitants souterrains

 
Directed by : Viktor GRES (Виктор ГРЕСЬ)
Writing credits : Timur ZULFIKAROV (Тимур ЗУЛЬФИКАРОВ)
 
Cast
Evgeniy EVSTIGNEYEV (Евгений ЕВСТИГНЕЕВ)
Albert FILOZOV (Альберт ФИЛОЗОВ)
Valentin GAFT (Валентин ГАФТ)
Larisa KADOCHNIKOVA (Лариса КАДОЧНИКОВА)
Vladimir KASHPUR (Владимир КАШПУР)
Aristarkh LIVANOV (Аристарх ЛИВАНОВ)
Nikolay SEKTIMENKO (Николай СЕКТИМЕНКО)
Vitali SIDLETSKY (Виталий СИДЛЕЦКИЙ)
Lyudmila SOSYURA (Людмила СОСЮРА)
 
Cinematography : Pavel STEPANOV (Павел СТЕПАНОВ), Andrey VLADIMIROV (Андрей ВЛАДИМИРОВ)
Production design : Aleksey LEVCHENKO (Алексей ЛЕВЧЕНКО)
Music : Oleg KARAVAICHUK (Олег КАРАВАЙЧУК)
Companies : Studio Dovzhenko
Release Date in Russia : 26/08/1981
 

Awards :
Prix du meilleur film soviétique pour enfants au Festival de Moscou, 1981

Plot synopsis
In a boarding school in Saint Petersburg, far from his parents, Alyosha begins a new life. As if to compensate for the distance from his family, he creates, in the image of his entourage, an imaginary world of underground inhabitants with a king and his subjects. But having failed to keep the secret of the existence of the underground inhabitants, Alyosha will lose them forever...
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 1982

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