To Dream and to Live

Synopsis

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".

Main Cast

Larysa Kadochnykova

Age : 86 | Popularity : 6%

Rodion Nahapetov

Константин Петрович, режиссёр

Age : 80 | Popularity : 8%

Yurii Illienko

Герасим, литейщик

Age : 74 | Popularity : 3%

Nina Urgant

мать Марии

Age : 94 | Popularity : 10%

Valentina Vladimirova

подруга матери

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Олег Полствин

Серёжа Стаценко

Age : N/A | Popularity : 0%

Leonid Kuravlyov

Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр

Age : 87 | Popularity : 7%

Yurii Mazhuha

Яков Сукач

Age : 93 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Yurii Illienko Ivan Mykolaichuk
Directing	Director	Yurii Illienko
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Lidiya Baikova
Camera	Director of Photography	Vilen Kalyuta
Sound	Original Music Composer	Leonid Hrabovskyi
Department	Role	Name

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