An Independent Life

Synopsis

This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.

Main Cast

Elena Popova

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Pavel Nazarov

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Dinara Drukarova

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Toshihiro Watanabe

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Lidiya Dorotenko

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Larisa Zhvaniya

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Natalya Ipatova

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Tatyana Ivanova

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Vitali Kanevsky
Writing	Writer	Vitali Kanevsky
Production	Producer	Françoise Galfré Patrick Godeau Philippe Godeau Vitali Kanevsky
Camera	Director of Photography	Vladimir Brylyakov
Sound	Music	Boris Rychkov
Editing	Editor	Hélène Gagarine
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