Cinema
Faithfulness
Вірність
Petro Todorovsky · 1965
Synopsis
In the autumn of 1943, after the liberation of Kyiv, Yuri Nikitin, a final-year schoolboy, learns of his father's death and becomes an infantry officer cadet. During a break between two drills, he and a comrade find themselves at the home of Zoya, a girl they had admired from afar; a shy feeling grows between her and Yuri, which the drills and the wait for departure to the front put to the test.
Context
Bulat Okudzhava's first screenplay, written with the director, the text was rejected three times for “abstract humanism” and went into production only after the addition of an oath-taking scene, which Todorovsky had removed before the presentation at Venice. The film was shot in Saratov, a city that is never named on screen. Todorovsky had earlier been one of the cinematographers on another film from the Odessa studio, released in 1956.
Who it is for
A film without a battle scene, which stays behind the lines, waiting for the front; the director tells in it the age he himself was in 1943.
Prizes and reception
Prize for best first film at the Venice Mostra in 1965, and special prize at the all-Soviet festival in Kiev in 1966.
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