The war ended a long time ago, but for the heroine of the film, the former pilot, only those years were filled with genuine meaning. She deeply feels discord with reality, lack of contact with her daughter. She doesn't manage to adapt to this peaceful, everyday life, she doesn't lose her piercing desire to fly...
Mayya Bulgakova | Nadezhda Petrukhina | |
Sergey Nikonenko | Sergei Bystryakov | |
Zhanna Bolotova | Tanya | |
Panteleymon Krymov | Pavel Gavrilovich | |
Leonid Dyachkov | Mitya Grachov | |
Vladimir Gorelov | Igor | |
Yuriy Medvedev | Boris Grigoryevich | |
Nikolay Grabbe | Kostya Shuvalov | |
Zhanna Aleksandrova | Zinka | |
Rimma Markova | Shura | |
Arkadi Trusov | Morozov | |
Olga Gobzeva | Zhurnalistka | |
Boris Yurchenko | Sinitsin | |
Evgeniy Evstigneev | Misha | |
Vladimir Burmistrov | Souchenik | |
Pyotr Dolzhanov | Vladimir Danilovich | |
Natalya Gitserot | Natalya Maksimilyanovna | |
O. Grabak | ||
P. Gurov | Portnoy | |
Mariya Kravchunovskaya | sosedka Bystryakovykh | |
Yu. Kryuchkov | ||
Vadim Mikhaylov | ||
K. Panchenko | ||
T. Posnikova | ||
S. Veselov |
Director | Larisa Shepitko | |
Writer | Valentin Ezhov, Natalya Ryazantseva | |
Musician | Roman Ledenyov | |
Photography | Igor Slabnevich |
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Added Date | Apr 13, 2022 20:52:27 |
Modified Date | Jun 23, 2023 22:18:41 |
Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko
The career of Larisa Shepitko, an icon of sixties and seventies Soviet cinema, was tragically cut short when she was killed in a car crash at age forty, just as she was emerging on the international scene. The body of work she left behind, though small, is masterful, and her genius for visually evoking characters' interior worlds is never more striking than in her two greatest works: Wings, an intimate yet exhilarating portrait of a female fighter pilot turned provincial headmistress, and The Ascent, a gripping, tragic wartime parable of betrayal and martyrdom. A true artist who had deftly used the Soviet film industry to make statements both personal and universal, Shepitko remains one of the greatest unsung filmmakers of all time.
Wings
For her first feature after graduating from the All-Russian State Institute for Cinematography (VGIK), Larisa Shepitko trained her lens on the fascinating Russian character actress Maya Bulgakova, who gives a marvelous performance as a once heroic Russian fighter pilot now living a quiet, disappointingly ordinary life as a school principal. Subtly portraying one woman’s desperation with elegant, spare camera work and casual, fluid storytelling, Shepitko, with Wings, announced herself as an important new voice in Soviet cinema.
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