Nine Days in One Year
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(2004, worldwide, DVD) | |
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Running time | 111 min. |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Nine Days in One Year (
Plot summary
Two young physicists and old friends — the possessed experimental physicist Dmitri Gusev and the skeptical theoretical physicist Ilya Kulikov — conduct
Despite the health warnings, Dmitri continues with his experiments in fusion power. After a number of failures, he turns to Ilya for help. Whilst carrying out of the experiment successfully, Dmitri receives a new radiation dose. He tries to hide this fact from everyone, including his wife Lyolya who is misinterpreting his sudden isolation, though the truth eventually rises to the surface. The research work has been continued by Ilya. Dmitri's health is getting worse, but he decides to fight his illness to the end and agrees to undergo bone marrow transplantation.
Production
The film's working title was 365 Days. Mikhail Romm assembled a team of people with whom he had never previously worked before.[1]
Popular actors
I had great interest in working on my portrayal of Dmitry Gusev. The life of this atomic scientist is filled with a persistent, meaningful and moreover with quite an inconspicuous feat. The role of Gusev especially appeals to me the fact that he is a modern man, deeply intelligent, we can say – a man of the new Soviet formation.
— Alexei Batalov[4]
The screenplay was written by Romm jointly with Khrabrovitsky. The cinematographer of the film was a newcomer German Lavrov. In many respects, the picture became a new word in the Soviet cinema. Experts have noted an unusual interpretation of the theme song and sound engineering - in fact there is almost no music, there is only a certain sound accompaniment of the technological sense. The sets of the film were also innovative.[4]
The filming took 6 months. The premiere was on 5 March 1962 at the Rossiya Theatre in Moscow.[1][5]
7 actors participated in the film who were later awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR: Batalov (1976), Smoktunovsky (1974), Plotnikov (1966), Blinnikov (1963), Gerdt (1990), Evstigneev (1983), Durov (1990). The director Mikhail Romm became the People's Artist of the USSR in 1950.
Alexey Batalov witnessed that numerous dark parts which were conceived by the authors were removed from the film per censorship requirements. As a result, an episode was removed where Gusev visits his mother's grave, a possible indication that in the finale the disease leads to Gusev becoming blind.
Reception
- Hoberman, J. (2000-11-12). "FILM; From a Soviet Era That Dared to Defy The Ruling Dogma". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-06.
Cast
- Aleksey Batalov as Dmitri Gusev, nuclear physicist
- Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Ilya Kulikov, nuclear physicist
- Tatyana Lavrova as Lyolya
- Nikolai Plotnikov as professor Sintsov
- Sergei Blinnikov as Paul D. Butov, director of the Institute
- Yevgeniy Yevstigneyevas Nikolai Ivanovich, physicist
- Mikhail Kozakov as Valery Ivanovich, physicist
- Valentin Nikulin as young physicist
- Pavel Shpringfeld as physicist
- Aleksandr Pelevin as physicist
- Yevgeni Teterin as professor Pokrovsky, surgeon
- Nikolai Sergeyev as Gusev's Father
- Ada Vojtsikas Maria Tikhonovna, Sintsov's wife
- Valentina Belyayeva as doctor
- Igor Yasulovich as Fedorov, physicist
- Lyusyena Ovchinnikova as Nura, Gusev's younger sister
Off-screen voice by
References
- ^ a b Zorky, Andrei (5 April 1962). "Девять дней одного года". Birobidzhanskaya Pravda (in Russian). LevDurov.Ru - Lev Durov's official website. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ^ "Biography of Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Part 2". Rusactors.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ^ Igor BIN. "Biography of Tatyana Lavrova". Rusactors.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ^ a b A. Repina-Pastukhova (March 1962). "Девять дней одного года". Novye Filmy (in Russian). LevDurov.Ru - Lev Durov's official website. Retrieved 25 November 2016.
- ^ "Физик должен паять лучше лудильщика". Kino-teatr.ru (in Russian). From the book of Maya Turovskaya (2006). "Chapter: Mikhail Romm, or Twenty-Five Years Later...". Common Fascism. Retrieved 25 November 2016.