To Dream and to Live

To Dream and to Live (1975)

Drama

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.

Casts

	Larysa Kadochnykova as Maria - actress
	Rodion Nahapetov as Konstantin Petrovich - director
	Yurii Illienko as Gerasim
	Nina Urgant as Mary's mother
	Valentina Vladimirova as mother's friend
	Oleg Polstvin as Seryozha Statsenko
	Leonid Kuravlyov as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
	Yurii Mazhuha as Яков Сукач
	Vladimir Alekseyenko as эпизод
	Vladimir Volkov as литейщик
	Viktor Panchenko as актёр
	Sigizmund Krishtofovich as эпизод
	Irina Kikhtova as эпизод
	Margarita Kavka as эпизод
	Agafya Bolotova as эпизод
	Oleksandr Sheremet as эпизод
	Halyna Demchuk as эпизод (нет в титрах)
	Raisa Pyrozhenko as
	A. Ivanov as

Crew