Introduction to Life
Introduction to Life is a 1963 Soviet drama film about World War II seen through the eyes of a young boy from Leningrad. It won a Special Jury Prize at the 24th Venice International Film Festival.
Plot
The Great Patriotic War is nearing the end. In a train two youths, Volodya (Boris Tokarev) and Valya (Natalia Bogunova) returning from evacuation to Leningrad cross paths for a few minutes. The plot carries them to their first random encounter that takes place in the summer of 1941 at a crowded refugee station. The period of growing adolescents, their introduction to adult life occurs in the arduous years of war. During the bombing of the evacuation train near the Mga station, dies the mother (Lyubov Sokolova) of Valya and her younger sister Lucy (Lida Volkova). After long wanderings in orphanages, the girls are found by their own aunt and they find shelter in her house.
Awards
Cast
- Alevtina Alekseevna Roemjantseva
- Anna Zarzhitskaya
- Antonina Pavlycheva
- Arkady Trusov
- Boris Tokarev
- Elizaveta Vladimirovna Koezjurina
- Inna Fyodorova
- Lidia Shtykan
- Lyubov Malinovskaya
- Lyubov Sokolova
- Lyubov Strizhenova
- Marija Ivanovna Andrianova
- Nataliya Bogunova
- Nikolai Burlyayev
- Nina Urgant
- Olga Bergholz
- Stanislav Chekan
- Valery Nosik
- Velta Līne
- Vera Burlakova
- Vija Artmane
- Viktor Avdyushko
- Yelena Maksimova
- Zoja Tolbuzina
More details
| author | Vera Panova |
|---|---|
| award | Grand Jury Prize |
| director | Igor Talankin |
| events | World War II |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | aircraft factory army captain divorce end great patriotic war the great patriotic war |
| musicBy | Alfred Schnittke |