Vadim ABDRASHITOV
Вадим АБДРАШИТОВ
Vadim ABDRACHITOV
USSR, 1980, 97mn 
Colour, fiction
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 Fox Hunting

 La Chasse aux renards

 
Directed by : Vadim ABDRASHITOV (Вадим АБДРАШИТОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksandr MINDADZE (Александр МИНДАДЗЕ)
 
Cast
Vladimir GOSTIUKHIN (Владимир ГОСТЮХИН)
Dmitry KHARATIAN (Дмитрий ХАРАТЬЯН)
Irina MURAVIOVA (Ирина МУРАВЬЕВА)
Igor NEFEDOV (Игорь НЕФЕДОВ)
 
Cinematography : Yuri NEVSKY (Юрий НЕВСКИЙ)
Production design : Vladimir KOROVIN (Владимир КОРОВИН)
Music : Eduard ARTEMIEV (Эдуард АРТЕМЬЕВ)
Sound : Yevgeni NEKRASSOV (Евгений НЕКРАСОВ), Yan POTOTSKY (Ян ПОТОЦКИЙ)
Editing : Rosa ROGATKINA (Роза РОГАТКИНА)
Companies : Mosfilm
 
format : 35 mm

Plot synopsis
Socio-psychological drama.
A provincial Soviet town. A factory worker Victor Belov is beaten up by two teenagers in the park. One of them, Vladimir Belikov, goes to a correction labor settlement for two years, the other is put on probation. Belov goes on with his life and work. Life is simple and unambiguous: the factory, the wife, regular factory sports competitions. But the memories of the trial keep coming back. Everything was not done as properly as it had seemed then. He wants to change the fate of the accused, goes to the labor camp, obtains the right to visit him there and advocates his early release…
 

commentaries
«Чую бездну, а откуда дышит она — не вижу»: мертвая петля неожиданного прозрения в фильмах Вадима Абдрашитова [« Je sens l'abîme, mais je ne vois pas d'où il respire » : la boucle morte de la perspicacité inattendue dans les films de Vadim Abdrashitov], Lev ANNINSKY, kinoart.ru, 2023
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2010
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2008
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2007