The read
It runs a compact 1h 15m.
Synopsis
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime
Ratings
IMDb6.8/10
13 audience votes
Key crew
- Oleg KavunScreenplay
- Boris SinkinOriginal Music Composer
- Oleg KavunDirector
Cast
- Danil TolkachevVadik
- Yuriy NazarovVasilyok
- Yurii MazhuhaLvovskiy
- Aleksandr FeklistovTeacher
- Nikolay ZasukhinSemenyuk
- Leonid TimtsunikBald Man
- Valeriy NosikRadiculitis Man
- Yelena KorolyovaMother
- Evgeniy LazarevRomanyuk
- Valeriy BarinovBukhov
- Avdotya SmirnovaGirl
- Yekaterina RednikovaMasha
Stills
Themes
prisonrebellionsoviet unionwrongful imprisonmentwrongful arrestperestroikacommunismjuvenile detention centertotalitarianismstalinism1960sloss of innocence