Saturday 5 October 2024
12:00 AM |

Russian Youth

The film tells the story of a simple village boy who goes to the front of the First World War with a naïve juvenile dream of acquiring fame and medals. In the first battle, he loses his sight. He is left to serve as a listener — he must listen carefully through huge metal funnels and raise an alarm when enemy airplanes are approaching.

Language
  • Russian
  • German
Runtime
72
Production Year
2019
Film Type
Feature
Production Countries
  • Russian Federation
Casts
Vladimir Korolev, Mikhail Buturlov, Artem Leshik, Danil Tyabin, Sergey Goncharenko, Filipp Dyachkov
Production Company
Lenfilm Studios
Premier Status
Asian Premiere

Crew List

Director
Alexander Zolotukhin
Screenwriter
Alexander Zolotukhin
Producer
Eduard Pichugin, Alexander Sokurov
DOP / Camera
Ayrat Yamilov
Editor
Tatyana Kuzmicheva
Music
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Sound
Andrey Fonin
Production Designer
Elena Zhukova

Festivals / Awards

2019: Berlin International Film Festival, Forum, Germany

Director/s

Alexander Zolotukhin
Alexander Zolotukhin
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Film Critic

Combination of courage and generosity

Saeed Aqiqi

“A Russian Youth”, the second film of Alexander Zolotukhin is
astonishing in many aspects. The films is a strange and pleasant experience of observing the “post-formalism” traces of new generation of Russian cinema, in a period when discussion of continuity of cinematic thoughts is defined in history of the cinema industry and often is limited
in the range of ultra-technological Hollywood structure.It seems that the filmmaker has been properly trained to reproducea formalist cinema of the Lenin period. Its disregard forthe story and staying within the limits of plot is as reasonableand logical as the works of Daudenco, Vetf and Eisenstein.The key to comprehend the film is presented to its viewers from the beginning,without any concealment.The film tries to create a link between the concepts of “seeing”and “hearing”, through the alignment of cinema and music, and understanding what the Russian formalist cinema was seeking.The movie also enjoys a musical link of Rachmaninoff (a fledged composer of Bolshevism) and the Russian laboratory school of thought in 2019, thanks to utilizing Bertolt Brecht’s gamesmanships.This Russian film also presents a combination of courage and open-mindedness to its viewers.


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