The read
It runs a compact 1h 3m.
Synopsis
Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”
Ratings
IMDb1.8/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Yuri YerzinkyanDirector
- Boris SaakovScreenplay
- Robert AmirkhanyanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Vitali OvanesovStudent
- Lyudmila GladunkoYoung Woman
- Guzh ManukyanGenrikh Zakaryan
- Arkadi TolbuzinMan, who resembles the young woman's father
- T. KarantonisWoman on the shore
- Evgeniy EvstigneevPerson, offering everybody nails
- Rosalia KolesovaTetya Sil'va The Barmaid
- Lyubov NefyodovaWoman, from the distant past
- Aleksandra DenisovaOld lady, whom Genrikh promised to chop wood for.
- Igor NagavkinGerman Officer
- Vladimir BasovBandit 1
- Stanislav ChekanBandit 2
Stills
Themes
fatereflectionremembrancegreat patriotic warphilosophicalself reflectionprofoundhuman connectioncontemplation