Aleksandr KAIDANOVSKY
Александр КАЙДАНОВСКИЙ
Aleksandr KAIDANOVSKI
USSR, 1985, 67mn 
Black and white, fiction
Prostaya smert
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Простая смерть

 

 A Simple Death

 Une mort simple

 
Directed by : Aleksandr KAIDANOVSKY (Александр КАЙДАНОВСКИЙ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr KAIDANOVSKY (Александр КАЙДАНОВСКИЙ)
 
Cast
Mikhail DANILOV (Михаил ДАНИЛОВ)
Alisa FREINDLIKH (Алиса ФРЕЙНДЛИХ) ...Praskovia Fedorovna
Vytautas PAUKSTE (Витаутас ПАУКШТЕ)
Valery PRIYOMYKHOV (Валерий ПРИЕМЫХОВ) ...Ivan Ilitch
Tamara TIMOFEYEVA (Тамара ТИМОФЕЕВА)
 
Cinematography : Yuri KLIMENKO (Юрий КЛИМЕНКО)
Production design : Aleksey RUDYAKOV (Алексей РУДЯКОВ)
Sound : Eleonora KAZANSKAIA (Элеонора КАЗАНСКАЯ)
Companies : Lenfilm
 

Plot synopsis
Loosely based on Lev Tolstoy’s short story “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”
The world and life itself, seen through the eyes of the hero of the film, turn out to be totally indifferent to his pain and sufferings. Unexpectedly, at the very moment of his death he experiences a sense of relief and tranquility.
Source : www.lenfilm.ru
 

commentaries
Le passé, cet étranger ? L’adaptation des classiques du xixe siècle par le cinéma soviétique, Catherine GERY, Presses de l'Inalco, 2016
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2008
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1987