Vitali Kanevsky
1935 (91 год)Freeze Die Come to Life
Vitali Kanevsky
Dinara Drukarova, Pavel Nazarov
Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and Galia, play some peculiar, very dangerous games of their own amid the man-made wasteland of Suchan.
Freeze, Die, Come to Life
Secret, for All the World Only
Yuri Oksanchenko, Vitali Kanevsky
Vladimir Stankevich, Alexei Sazonov
Based on the book of Viktor Dragunsky "Deniskin's Stories". Once upon a time there lived in Moscow the 1950's an October school student Deniska Korablyov. Every day he was terribly busy with the most ordinary children's activities: he did not prepare lessons, quarreled and put up with classmates, helped around the house and dabbled. He also planned a real murder, crossed paths with the criminal Fantômas, exposed the adult liars and thieves, participated in the selfless rescue of man...
Secret, for All the World Only
Nous, les enfants du xxème siècle
Vitali Kanevsky
Dinara Drukarova, Vitali Kanevsky
It focuses on how youngsters in capitalist Russia turn to crime. Either they thrive at their game or they get locked up. In any case they're trapped. The portrayed kids are old men, acting wise and tough while in fact they're victims.
We, the Children of the 20th Century
Деревенская история
Vitali Kanevsky
Sergei Prokhanov, Yelena Solovey
В сложный узел затягивается судьба главного героя - молодого тракториста Гриши Горелова, мечтающего о счастье тружеников своего села. Он уверен в том, что нет ничего важнее засеянной вовремя земли, которая даст урожай и накормит каждого...
Derevenskaya istoriya
Самостоятельная жизнь
Vitali Kanevsky
Elena Popova, Pavel Nazarov
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.
An Independent Life
