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To Dream and to Live

The script about loneliness, conformity and the impossibility of creative realization scared the editorial censorship at the studio, and then at Derzhkino. A lot of claims were made against him. The demands for amendments and endless additions and rewrites by the authors lasted for about a year. The original version of the title "Na pokhony!" ("To bow down!") was replaced by "To Dream and to Live". According to Pylyp Ilyenko, the director's eldest son, this name appeared "as a result of censor pressure." Censorship stopped the tape 40 times: at the stage of the literary script, director's, during film tests (the actors were not approved), filming, etc. The film catastrophically fell apart into fragments, into masterfully filmed, but unrelated scenes. The director called the finished version a "dead film".

Top Cast

  • Larysa Kadochnykova

    Larysa Kadochnykova

  • Rodion Nahapetov

    Rodion Nahapetov

    Константин Петрович, режиссёр

  • Yurii Illienko

    Yurii Illienko

    Герасим, литейщик

  • Nina Urgant

    Nina Urgant

    мать Марии

  • Valentina Vladimirova

    Valentina Vladimirova

    подруга матери

  • Олег Полствин

    Олег Полствин

    Серёжа Стаценко

  • Leonid Kuravlyov

    Leonid Kuravlyov

    Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр

  • Yurii Mazhuha

    Yurii Mazhuha

    Яков Сукач

  • Vladimir Alekseyenko

    Vladimir Alekseyenko

    эпизод

Overview

The script about loneliness, conformity and the impossibility of creative realization scared the editorial censorship at the studio, and then at Derzhkino. A lot of claims were made against him. The demands for amendments and endless additions and rewrites by the authors lasted for about a year. The original version of the title "Na pokhony!" ("To bow down!") was replaced by "To Dream and to Live". According to Pylyp Ilyenko, the director's eldest son, this name appeared "as a result of censor pressure." Censorship stopped the tape 40 times: at the stage of the literary script, director's, during film tests (the actors were not approved), filming, etc. The film catastrophically fell apart into fragments, into masterfully filmed, but unrelated scenes. The director called the finished version a "dead film".

Rating

6.7 / 10
3 Reviews
1 Popular

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