The read
It runs long at 4h 35m.
Synopsis
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
Ratings
IMDb7.9/10
47 audience votes
Key crew
- Andrei KonchalovskyDirector
- Valentin EzhovWriter
- Andrei KonchalovskyWriter
Cast
- Nikita MikhalkovAleksei Ustyuzhanin
- Vitali SolominNikolai Ustyuzhanin
- Sergey ShakurovSpiridon Solomin
- Natalya AndreychenkoAnastasia Solomina
- Lyudmila GurchenkoOlder Taya Solomina
- Vladimir SamoylovAfanasi Ustyuzhanin
- Mikhail KononovRodion Klimentov
- Nikolai SkorobogatovYermolai
- Pavel KadochnikovEternal Grandfather
- Evgeniy Leonov-GladyshevAlesha Ustyuzhanin
- Yevgeni PerovYerofei Solomin
- Konstantin GrigorevGeolog Guryev
Stills
Themes
romance