To Dream and to Live (1974)
The script about loneliness, conformity and the impossibility of creative realization scared the editorial censorship at the studio, and then at Derzhkino. A lot of claims were made against him. The demands for amendments and endless additions and rewrites by the authors lasted for about a year. The original version of the title "Na pokhony!" ("To bow down!") was replaced by "To Dream and to Live". According to Pylyp Ilyenko, the director's eldest son, this name appeared "as a result of censor pressure." Censorship stopped the tape 40 times: at the stage of the literary script, director's, during film tests (the actors were not approved), filming, etc. The film catastrophically fell apart into fragments, into masterfully filmed, but unrelated scenes. The director called the finished version a "dead film".
Director:
Yurii Illienko
Writers:
Ivan Mykolaichuk, Yurii Illienko.
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Larysa Kadochnykova as |
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Rodion Nahapetov as Константин Петрович, режиссёр |
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Yurii Illienko as Герасим, литейщик |
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Nina Urgant as мать Марии |
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Valentina Vladimirova as подруга матери |
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Олег Полствин as Серёжа Стаценко |
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Leonid Kuravlyov as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр |
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Yurii Mazhuha as Яков Сукач |
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Vladimir Alekseyenko as эпизод |
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Vladimir Volkov as литейщик |
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Viktor Panchenko as актёр |
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Sigizmund Krishtofovich as эпизод |
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Irina Kikhtova as эпизод |
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Margarita Kavka as эпизод |
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Agafya Bolotova as эпизод |
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Oleksandr Sheremet as эпизод |
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Halyna Demchuk as эпизод (нет в титрах) |
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Raisa Pyrozhenko as |
| Camera | Vilen Kalyuta | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Ivan Mykolaichuk | Screenplay |
| Directing | Yurii Illienko | Director |
| Writing | Yurii Illienko | Screenplay |
| Sound | Leonid Hrabovskyi | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lidiya Baikova | Costume Design |