I Am Twenty (1965)
Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.
Director: Marlen Khutsiyev
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Valentin Popov as Sergei Zhuravlyov |
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Nikolai Gubenko as Nikolai Fokin |
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Stanislav Lyubshin as Slava Kostikov |
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Marianna Vertinskaya as Anya |
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Zinaida Zinovyeva as Olga Mikhailovna Zhuravlyova |
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Svetlana Starikova as Vera Zhuravlyova |
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Lev Prygunov as junior lieutenant Aleksandr Zhuravlyov |
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Tatyana Bogdanova as Lyusya Kostikova |
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Lyudmila Selyanskaya as conductress |
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Aleksandr Blinov as Kuzmich |
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Lev Zolotukhin as Anya's father |
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Pyotr Shcherbakov as Chernousov |
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Gennady Nekrasov as Vladimir Vasilyevich |
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Nikolai Zakharchenko as friend |
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Andrei Tarkovsky as guest at Anya's party |
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Andrei Konchalovsky as Yura, guest at Anya's party |
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Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Svetlana, guest at Anya's party |
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Olga Gobzeva as Vera, guest at Anya's party |
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Natalya Ryazantseva as guest at Anya's party |
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Andrei Ladynin as guest at Anya's party |
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Lidiya Rasstrigina as Natasha |
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Rodion Nahapetov as red army soldier |
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Andrei Voznesenskiy as himself (uncredited) |
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Mikhail Svetlov as himself (uncredited) |
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Rimma Kazakova as herself (uncredited) |
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko as himself (uncredited) |
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Bella Akhmadulina as herself (uncredited) |
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Robert Rozhdestvensky as himself (uncredited) |
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Bulat Okudzhava as himself (uncredited) |
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Grigori Pozhenyan as self |
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Boris Slutskiy as himself (uncredited) |
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Larisa Burkova as Shura (uncredited) |
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Tamara Sovchi as Valya (uncredited) |
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Yevgeniy Maksimov as Episodic role |
| Writing | Gennady Shpalikov | Writer |
| Directing | Marlen Khutsiyev | Director |
| Writing | Marlen Khutsiyev | Writer |
| Camera | Margarita Pilikhina | Director of Photography |
| Art | Irina Zakharova | Production Design |
| Sound | Nikolai Sidelnikov | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Raisa Skoretskaya | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Klavdiya Rusanova | Costume Design |
| Directing | Polina Poznanskaya | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Aleksandr Izbutskiy | Sound Director |
| Writing | Natalya Torchinskaya | Script Editor |
| Editing | N. Karlova | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | E. Sukhova | Makeup & Hair |
| Camera | A. Antonov | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Yury Postnikov | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Ye. Lunina | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Yuriy Dyakonov | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Leonid Maryagin | Third Assistant Director |
| Sound | Arnold Roytman | Conductor |
| Production | Nikolay Petrov | Executive Producer |