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There Is Such a Lad
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Wikipedia article
'There Is Such a Lad' is a 1964 Soviet comedy film, directed by Vasily Shukshin.[https://books.google.fr/books?id=uXxEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA734&lpg=PA734&dq=There+Is+Such+a+Lad+Shukshin&source=bl&ots=zX8tW0C6nf&sig=nAhyNCTYFEPsGGs23O3ifP7u4Do&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYpo2yxLDfAhUDyRoKHd-VDBY4ChDoATACegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=There%20Is%20Such%20a%20Lad%20Shukshin&f=false Neil Cornwell, Reference Guide to Russian Literature] Routledge, 2013, , 734 p. The movie is based on Vasily Shukshin's collection of short stories.
Plot
The movie tells the story of an Altai truck driver Pashka Kolokolnikov (played by Leonid Kuravlyov) - a kind, funny, and outgoing person, who loves life.[https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russian-tv-with-mark-teeter-white-sun-of-the-desert-hipsters-and-more-worth-watching-55385 Moscow TV Round-Up: White Sun of the Desert, Hipsters and The World of Czeslaw Milosz, Sept. 19 2016] themoscowtimes.com He is a simpleton with a variety of gross provincial expressions and remarks, who likes to make fun of people and play practical jokes. But it turns out that he can also be a hero, when he prevents the explosion of a gasoline truck by risking his life.[http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/2229/titr/ kino/movie/sov/2229]
Awards
The film won the 'Lion of Saint Marco' prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1964 for Best Children's Film and received an award at the All-Union Film Festival (Leningrad, 1964) for Best Comedy Film ("For the cheerfulness, lyricism and originality").
Cast
* Leonid Kuravlyov as Pashka Kolokolnikov
* Lidiya Chaschina as Nastya Platonova
* Larisa Burkova as Katya Lizunova
* Renita Grigoryeva as a city woman
* Nina Sazonova as Anisya
* Anastasia Zuyeva as Marfa
* Bella Akhmadulina as journalist
* Boris Balakin as Kondrat Stepanovich
* Rodion Nakhapetov as Gena
* Viktor Filippov as collective farm chairman
* Ivan Ryzhov as Head tank farms
* Nikolai Fedortsov as Pasha friend
* Yevgeniy Teterin as teacher
* Natalia Gitserot as Leading fashion show
* Yuri Grigoryev as Oleg
* Elena Volskaya as nurse
* Nina Ivanova as Nina
References
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