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To Dream and to Live

5.0 83 mins Drama   1974
Director(s): Yurii Illienko

The script about loneliness, conformity and the impossibility of creative realization scared the editorial censorship at the studio, and then at Derzhkino. A lot of claims were made against him. The demands for amendments and endless additions and rewrites by the authors lasted for about a year. The original version of the title "Na pokhony!" ("To bow down!") was replaced by "To Dream and to Live". According to Pylyp Ilyenko, the director's eldest son, this name appeared "as a result of censor pressure." Censorship stopped the tape 40 times: at the stage of the literary script, director's, during film tests (the actors were not approved), filming, etc. The film catastrophically fell apart into fragments, into masterfully filmed, but unrelated scenes. The director called the finished version a "dead film".

Casts of To Dream and to Live

Rodion Nahapetov

as Константин Петрович, режиссёр

Yurii Illienko

as Герасим, литейщик

Nina Urgant

as мать Марии

Valentina Vladimirova

as подруга матери

Олег Полствин

as Серёжа Стаценко

Leonid Kuravlyov

as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр

Yurii Mazhuha

as Яков Сукач

Volodymyr Oleksiyenko

as эпизод

Vladimir Volkov

as литейщик

Viktor Panchenko

as актёр

Sigizmund Krishtofovich

as эпизод

Irina Kikhtova

as эпизод

Margarita Kavka

as эпизод

Agafya Bolotova

as эпизод

Oleksandr Sheremet

as эпизод

Halyna Demchuk

as эпизод (нет в титрах)

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