Mikhail ROMM
Михаил РОММ
Mikhaïl ROMM
USSR (Russia), 1941, 100mn 
Black and white, fiction
Dream
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Мечта

 

 Le Rêve

 Mechta

 
Directed by : Mikhail ROMM (Михаил РОММ)
Writing credits : Yevgeni GABRILOVICH (Евгений ГАБРИЛОВИЧ), Mikhail ROMM (Михаил РОММ)
 
Cast
Mikhail ASTANGOV (Михаил АСТАНГОВ) ...Komorovski, le jeune époux
Mikhail BOLDUMAN (Михаил БОЛДУМАН) ...Dombek, ancien artiste
Pyotr GLEBOV (Пётр ГЛЕБОВ)
Arkadi KISLYAKOV (Аркадий КИСЛЯКОВ) ...Lazar, fils de Rosa
Yelena KUZMINA (Елена КУЗЬМИНА) ...Anna
Faina RANEVSKAIA (Фаина РАНЕВСКАЯ) ... Rosa Skorokhod
Viktor SHCHEGLOV (Виктор ЩЕГЛОВ) ...Tomach, ouvrier
Vladimir_2 SOLOVYOV (Владимир_2 СОЛОВЬЕВ) ...Vassil, le frère d'Anna
Ada VOITSIK (Ада ВОЙЦИК) ...Vanda
 
Cinematography : Boris VOLCHEK (Борис ВОЛЧЕК)
Production design : Vladimir KAPLUNOVSKI (Владимир КАПЛУНОВСКИЙ)
Sound : Yevgeni KASHKEVICH (Евгений КАШКЕВИЧ), Vyacheslav LESHCHEV (Вячеслав ЛЕЩЕВ)
Production : Mosfilm
Restauration : Mosfilm, 1972
Release date in Russia : 13/09/1943
 

Plot synopsis
About the fate of Anne, a peasant girl who finds herself among the inhabitants of the «Dream» furnished rooms in a town of Western Ukraine. They are unfortunate people who can’t be settled in life that shuts the door on them. Only Anne manages to realize her dream of worthy existence: having overcome serious difficulties she finds herself in the USSR.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Армен Медведев : "вся история нашего кино c 1960-х годов — это моя история" [Interview de Armen Medvedev (1938-2022), historien du cinéma], Armen MEDVEDEV, Наталья РЯБЧИКОВА, Андрей АПОСТОЛОВ, Interview, kinoart.ru, 2022
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Famous Actresses and Actors, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2024
- Kinojudaica in the Cinémathèque suisse, Lausanne (Switzerland), 2011
- Festival des cultures juives, Paris (France), 2010
- Kinojudaica : the image of the Jews in the cinema of Russia and Soviet Union (1910-1960), Toulouse (France), 2009
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2007
- Gels et dégels, une autre histoire du cinéma soviétique (1926-1968), Paris (France), 2002
- Film Festival Locarno, Locarno (Switzerland), 2000

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