Cinema
There Is Such a Lad
Живёт такой парень
Vasily Shukshin · 1964
Synopsis
Pavel Kolokolnikov, known as Pashka, drives a lorry on the Chuya road, in the Altai. Cheerful, sociable, always ready to help, he meets one person after another along the kilometres. Hired by a kolkhoz chairman to haul timber, he courts Nastya, the librarian, who prefers another man; he picks up a woman traveller from the city, then goes to see an old friend, Katya, who turns him away.
Context
The director himself wrote the screenplay for this first film, produced by the Gorky studio. Leonid Kuravlyov plays the driver Pashka, opposite Lidia Chashchina and Larissa Burkova. The story follows the hero from encounter to encounter in the course of his trips around Gorno-Altaysk. The State Library of Russia for the Blind counts twenty-seven million viewers on its release.
Who it is for
A comedy of manners of about an hour and three quarters, on the roads of the Altai, for those who like village portraits.
Prizes and reception
Prize for best children's film at the Venice festival in 1964, according to a Russian library record.
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