Dinara ASANOVA
Динара АСАНОВА
Dinara ASSANOVA
USSR, 1974, 72mn 
Colour, fiction
Woodpeckers don't get headaches
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Не болит голова у дятла

 

 Le Pivert n'a pas mal à la tête

 Ne bolit golova u dyatela

 
Directed by : Dinara ASANOVA (Динара АСАНОВА)
Writing credits : Yuri KLEPIKOV (Юрий КЛЕПИКОВ)
 
Cast
Sasha BOGDANOV (Саша БОГДАНОВ)
Nikolay GRINKO (Николай ГРИНЬКО)
Sasha JEZLIAEV (Саша ЖЕЗЛЯЕВ)
Denis KOZLOV (Денис КОЗЛОВ)
Boris LEBEDINSKI (Борис ЛЕБЕДИНСКИЙ)
Andrey NIKITIN (Андрей НИКИТИН)
Ira OBOLSKAYA (Ира ОБОЛЬСКАЯ)
Mikhail SVETIN (Михаил СВЕТИН)
Yelena TSYPLAKOVA (Елена ЦЫПЛАКОВА)
Yekaterina VASILIEVA (Екатерина ВАСИЛЬЕВА)
Vladimir VASILKOK (Владимир ВАСИЛЬКОВ)
Tatyana VOLKOVA (Татьяна ВОЛКОВА)
 
Cinematography : Dmitry DOLININ (Дмитрий Дмитрий Алексеевич ДОЛИНИН)
Production design : Vladimir SVETOZAROV (Владимир СВЕТОЗАРОВ)
Music : Evgeniy KRYLATOV (Евгений КРЫЛАТОВ)
Production : Lenfilm
Release date in Russia : 18 novembre 1977
 
Sites : IMDb, Chapaev.media

Plot synopsis
Seva Mukhin, called Mukha (“The Fly”) by his friends, is a gifted person who dreams of becoming a musician playing percussion instruments in a group. He hears music everywhere: in the creak of the old gates, in the patter of the rain, even in the woodpecker’s rattle...
Mukha is fourteen, he yearns to assert himself... but everybody sees him as the little brother of the famous basketball player Mukhin. Will this go on forever?
Medal and Laureate Diploma for D. Asanova at the 2nd Show of Creative Youth of Leningrad (1976).
Laureate title to V. Svetozarov at the 3rd Show of Creative Youth of Leningrad (1978).
 

Commentaries
Vingt grandes réalisations des studios Lenfilm, Alexandra GOUZEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2024
Как Динара Асанова изменила кино о подростках: голос юности в фильмах режиссера, Юлия КУРЕНКОВА, Cinema Routine, 2023
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Official list of Russian films for school programs, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- Official list of Russian films for school programs, (kinoglaz.fr), 2024
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2008
- "Spirit of Fire" International Debut Film Festival, Khanty Mansiysk (Russia), 2004