Drama · Soviet Union · 1965 · 1h 16m

Clean Ponds

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Director
Aleksey Sakharov
Cast
Aleksandr Zbruev as Sergei Rakitin Yevghenia Filonova as Nina Lyudmila Gladunko as Zhenya Rumyantseva Tamara Syomina as Anna Samokhina Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Katya Vladimir Yevstafyev as Oska
Crew
Leonid Kalashnikov — Director of Photography Antonina Zimina — Editor Yuriy Levitin — Original Music Composer Bella Akhmadulina — Writer Yuriy Nagibin — Novel Ivan Plastinkin — Production Design
Synopsis

A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events …

Mood & Themes
world war iisoviet unionblack and whitemoscow, russia
Key Collaborators
Aleksey Sakharov Director Leonid Kalashnikov Director of Photography Antonina Zimina Editor Yuriy Levitin Original Music Composer Bella Akhmadulina Writer Yuriy Nagibin Novel Ivan Plastinkin Production Design Maya Filippova Costume Design
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