The Golden Gates (1971)
The film-remembrance of the creative fate of the Ukrainian Soviet film director Alexander Dovzhenko, shot on his diaries. It has his statements about his work, about the role of the artist in society, his plans and sources of inspiration, his artistic style and the peculiarities of his worldview. Used excerpts from his films and documentary footage taken during the director's life, as well as filmed fragments of the unfinished scripts " The Death of the Gods” and “Tsar”.
Director: Yuliya Solntseva
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Roman Tkachuk as God / Peasant |
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Mykola Hrynko as Bishop |
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Pyotr Shcherbakov as Gordei Truba |
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Valentina Telichkina as Madonna |
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Nikolai Gubenko as Soldier Ivan |
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Sergey Nikonenko as Tsar |
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Boris Sichkin as Nesmachny |
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Sergey Bondarchuk as Narrator (Voice) |
| Art | Aleksandr Boym | Production Design |
| Writing | Oleksandr Dovzhenko | Writer |
| Directing | Yuliya Solntseva | Director |
| Camera | Georgi Rerberg | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Grigori Korenblyum | Sound |
| Sound | Mira Leksachenko | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Valeriya Nisskaya | Costume Design |
| Writing | Valeriy Karen | Writer |
| Writing | Yuliya Solntseva | Writer |