Margarita BARSKAIA
Маргарита БАРСКАЯ
Margarita BARSKAIA
USSR, 1936, 72mn 
fiction
Father and Son
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Отец и сын

 

 Père et fils

 Otets i syn

 
Directed by : Margarita BARSKAIA (Маргарита БАРСКАЯ)
Writing credits : Margarita BARSKAIA (Маргарита БАРСКАЯ), Veniamin YADIN (Вениамин ЯДИН)
 
Cast
Lev SVERDLIN (Лев СВЕРДЛИН) ...Volkov
Gena VOLOVICH (Гена ВОЛОВИЧ)
Vyacheslav NOVIKOV (Вячеслав НОВИКОВ) ...Partkom Secretary
Mikhail TARKHANOV (Михаил ТАРХАНОВ) ...guardian
Margarita BARSKAIA (Маргарита БАРСКАЯ) ...Teacher
 
Cinematography : Luis FORESTIER (Луи ФОРЕСТЬЕ)
Production : Coyuzdetfilm
 
Site : Chapaev.media

Note :
The film has been banned, reassembled and mutilated. It only exists in an incomplete version.

Plot synopsis
About the difficult relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and his father, the manager of a factory, who is completely taken by his work without paying attention to his son. The boy abandons his studies after an argument with his father, leaves the house and rubs shoulders with the criminal world.
It was only after a series of incidents and conversations with different people that the father realized his mistake. In the end, the father and son meet with the words: "I was wrong".
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Отец и сын (1936), Margarita BARSKAIA, chapaev.media, 2020
Детская игра как основа поэтики. Евгений Марголит об Отце и сыне, Yevgeni MARGOLIT, chapaev.media, 2009
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Pionnières du cinéma soviétique à la Cinémathèque française, Paris (France), 2020
- 'Il Cinema Ritrovato' Festival, Bologna (Italy), 2020

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