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They're Calling, Open the Door
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Wikipedia article
'They're Calling, Open the Door' is a Soviet feature film of 1965 directed by Alexander Mitta, the debut of the twelve-year-old Elena Proklova in the cinema.
Plot
A fifth-grade student, Tanya (Elena Proklova), is in love with the pioneer leader Petya (Sergey Nikonenko), who is teased by one of her classmates. Tanya's father is a geologist, and her mother left for a while to see her husband; Tanya lives alone under the supervision of a neighbor in a communal apartment. To please the pioneer leader, she takes part in the search for an interesting person, one of the first soviet pioneers.
Cast
* Elena Proklova as Tanya Nechaeva
* Rolan Bykov as Pavel Vasilievich Kolpakov
* Sergey Nikonenko as Petya Kryuchkov
* Vladimir Belokurov as violinist Korkin
* Viktor Kosykh as Genka
* Valentina Vladimirova as watchman in theater
* Oleg Yefremov as Vasily Dresvyannikov
* Lyusyena Ovchinnikova as Tanya's mother
* Iya Savvina as Genka's mother
* Vladimir Balon as teacher of fencing
* Yekaterina Vasilyeva as physical education teacher
* Klara Rumyanova as Klara Mikhailovna
* Andrei Smirnov as tenant
* Pavel Lebeshev as Petya Kryuchkov's neighbor
Awards
* Venice Film Festival: Lion of San Marco Grand Prize (Alexander Mitta)[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059952/awards?ref_=tt_awd They're Calling, Open the Door Awards] at the IMDb
* Mosfilm Award: Best Actress (Elena Proklova)[https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/2446/titr/ They're Calling, Open the Door] at the kino-teatr.ru
References
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