Mikhail KALIK
Михаил КАЛИК
Mikhaïl KALIK
USSR, 1964, 82mn 
Black and white, fiction
Good-bye, Boys
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До свидания, мальчики!

 

 Au revoir les garçons !

 Do svidaniya, malchiki!

 
Directed by : Mikhail KALIK (Михаил КАЛИК)
Writing credits : Boris BALTER (Борис БАЛТЕР), Mikhail KALIK (Михаил КАЛИК)
 
Cast
Natalya BOGUNOVA (Наталия БОГУНОВА) ...Inka
Nikolay DOSTAL (Николай ДОСТАЛЬ) ...Sachka
Viktoria FEDOROVA (Виктория ФЕДОРОВА) ...Jenia
Nikolay GRABBE (Николай ГРАББЕ) ...Commisaire aux armées
Mikhail KONONOV (Михаил КОНОНОВ) ...Vitia
Yefim KOPELIAN (Ефим КОПЕЛЯН) ...ferblantier
Aleksey KUZNETSOV (Алексей КУЗНЕЦОВ) ...Aleksei
Anna RODIONOVA (Анна РОДИОНОВА) ...Katia
Yevgeni STEBLOV (Евгений СТЕБЛОВ) ...Volodia
Angelina STEPANOVA (Ангелина СТЕПАНОВА) ...la mère de Volodia
 
Cinematography : Levan PAATASHVILI (Леван ПААТАШВИЛИ)
Production design : Tamara ANTONOVA (Тамара АНТОНОВА)
Music : Mikael TARIVERDIEV (Микаэл ТАРИВЕРДИЕВ)
Sound : Viktor ZORIN (Виктор ЗОРИН)
Production : Mosfilm
Release date in Russia : 02/1964
 

Plot synopsis
Kalik's adaptation of Boris Balter's novel, then a bestseller, is a wistful evocation of lazy teenage summer days cut short by the encroaching military draft. GOODBYE, BOYS was as noted for its sensual undercurrents as it was revered for the lyrical cinematography: in its definitive shot, scattered raindrops hit a beach, wet sand hardening into tiny medallions. Thirty years later, Kalik was to make And The Wind Returns, an intriguing postmodernist pastiche of this film and his own biography that mixes visual self-quotes, bits of the actual GOODBYE, BOYS footage and studio-lot recreations (where he is played by an actor).
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Commentaries and bibliography
Квартира, класс, двор — и снова квартира: подростки советского кино в поисках настоящего продолженного [Les adolescents dans le cinéma soviétique], Ирина МАРГОЛИНА, kinoart.ru, 2023
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2023
- Festival of Archive Films, Belye Stolby (Russia), 2019
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands), 2016
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 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

Photos and videos
 

Source : www.russiancinema.ru