An Unquiet Spring
Беспокойная весна (original title)
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Synopsis
A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural plains. A classically Socialist-Realist narrative of an individual's 're-education'. Zhenia, a hapless idler, arrives with a band of enthusiastic young Konsomol members to build a new town in the steppe. Although his dream, like that of all the young participants, is 'to become a tractor driver and a hero', he isn't prepared to work for the honour.
Cast and Crew
Cast: Sergei Gurzo, Idris Nogajbayev, Nina Grebeshkova, Mukhtar Bakhtygereev, Vladimir Boriskin, Kenenbai Kozhabekov, Vsevolod Tyagushev, Rimma Shorokhova, Ivan Lobyzovskiy, Pavel Kairov, Shakhan Musin, L. Olshevsky, V. Skuridin, K. Alishev, Leonid Vodolazov, Tamara Dumnaya, Rakhia Koichubaeva, Viktor Uralsky, Nadezhda Samsonova, Gleb Fedorovsky
Writer: Aleksandr Medvedkin (Writer)
Cinematographer: Viktor Maslennikov
Production Designer: Pavel Zaltsman, Yuri Mingazitdinov
Editor: S. Alieva
Composer: Bakhitzhan Baykadamov, Yevgeni Brusilovsky
Direction team: Sergei Gurzo (Assistant Director), Vera Medvedkina (First Assistant Director)
Producer: A. Shevelev
Production: Kazakhfilm