Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the censor’s vault as well – for twenty years. Both tales look back to the post-revolutionary era: 'Angel' (Olesha) speaks tragically of the brutality and destruction of the time, and 'The Homeland of Electricity' (Platonov) captures its haunting grotesquery.
Cast
Leonid Kulagin
комиссар Парфенов (новелла «Ангел»)
Sergei Volf
интеллигент (новелла «Ангел»)
Nikolai Gubenko
человек с коровой (новелла «Ангел»)
Georgi Burkov
студент (новелла «Ангел»)
Igor Klass
атаман Ангел (новелла «Ангел»)
Yevgeni Goryunov
Степан Жаренов (озв. Валерий Носик) («Родина электричества»)
Sergei Gorbatyuk
Гриня (озв. Сергей Никоненко) («Родина электричества»)
Ivan Turchenkov
сотрудник губисполкома («Родина электричества»)
Crew
Larisa Shepitko
Director, Screenplay
Andrey Smirnov
Director
Genrikh Gabay
Director
Boris Yermolayev
Screenplay
Ilya Suslov
Screenplay
Mikhail Suslov
Screenplay
Yury Olesha
Story, Short Story
Andrei Platonov
Story, Short Story
Pavel Lebeshev
Director of Photography
Dmitri Korzhikhin
Director of Photography
Valery Kostrin
Production Design
Alfred Schnittke
Original Music Composer
Roman Ledenyov
Original Music Composer
Vladimir Korovin
Art Direction
Valentin Konovalov
Art Direction
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