''Get Thee Out'' () is a 1991 Soviet
comedy-drama film
Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and drama. In film, as well as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as death, illness, betrayal, grief, etc. ...
directed by
Dmitry Astrakhan
Dmitry Hananovich Astrakhan (; born March 17, 1957) is a Russian film director and actor. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2009).
Biography
Dmitry Astrakhan was born in the family of Leningrad historians Hanan Markovich Astrakhan and ...
.
The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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at the
64th Academy Awards
The 64th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1991 in the United States and took place on March 30, 1992, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beg ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.
[Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
Plot
The film was based on literary works of
Sholom Aleichem
Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich (; May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem (Yiddish and , also spelled in Soviet Yiddish, ; Russian and ), was a Yiddish author and playwright who lived in the Russian Empire and in the Unit ...
,
Aleksandr Kuprin
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (; – 25 August 1938) was a Russian writer best known for his novels ''The Duel'' (1905)Kuprin scholar Nicholas Luker, in his biography ''Alexander Kuprin'', calls ''The Duel'' his "greatest masterpiece" (ch ...
and
Isaac Babel
Isaac Emmanuilovich Babel ( – 27 January 1940) was a Soviet writer, journalist, playwright, and literary translator. He is best known as the author of ''Red Cavalry'' and ''Odessa Stories'', and has been acclaimed as "the greatest prose write ...
.
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Motya Rabinovich, in celebration of his good fortune, is preparing a feast for the entire village. However, his mind is haunted by visions of pogroms rolling across the country. His only daughter has converted to Christianity in order to marry the son of the village elder. Alongside the troubling visions, scenes emerge of a truck, carrying pogromists under the Russian tricolor flag, ominously approaching the village to a mournful waltz.
In the final scene, Motya and his family are packing up to leave the village with all their belongings. But as they prepare to depart, Motya spots a crowd approaching the village. In a moment of desperation, he grabs an axe and rushes to meet the truck of terror. A miracle happens—he is joined by the local men, who march alongside him toward their inevitable fate.
Cast
* Otar Megvinetukhutsesi as Motya Rabinovich
* Elena Anisimova as Golda
* Tamari Skhirtladze as Sora-Broha
* Tatyana Kuznetsova
Tatyana Dmitryevna Kuznetsova (; 14 July 1941 – 28 August 2018) was a Soviet Union, Soviet cosmonaut. She was the youngest person ever selected by a government List of human spaceflight programs, human spaceflight program.
Life
Kuznetsova wa ...
as Beylka
* as Trofim
* Vladimir Kabalin as Ivan
* as Petya
* Kseniya Rappoport
Kseniya Aleksandrovna Rappoport (; born 25 March 1974) is a Russian actress. She graduated in 2000 from Saint Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Arts and was immediately invited to join the Maly Drama Theatre. She played Nina Zarechnaya in ''The ...
as Sima
* Nikolai Rybnikov
Nikolai Nikolayevich Rybnikov (; 13 December 1930 – 22 October 1990) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981).
Biography Early life and education
Nikolai Nikolayevich Rybnikov was born on 13 December 1930 in Bor ...
as Nikifor, innkeeper
* as constable
* Viktor Bychkov as Yegor
Production
Making his debut in cinema, the young theater director from Leningrad Dmitry Astrakhan, along with his permanent co-author playwright Oleg Danilov, turned to the Jewish theme, which was as popular in the late 1980s as the Stalinist theme. According to Astrakhan's recollections, he was allocated 100,000 rubles for a movie worth a million rubles at the prices of that time on Lenfilm
Lenfilm (, acronym of Leningrad Films) is a Russian production and distribution company with its own film studio located in Saint Petersburg (the city was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991, thus the name). It is a corporation with its stakes s ...
. The remaining 900 thousand he found through a journalist Vladimir Kamyshev.
See also
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References
External links
*
Alexander Fedorov's Reviews
Get Thee Out
at the KinoPoisk
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1991 films
1991 comedy-drama films
1991 directorial debut films
Soviet comedy-drama films
Russian-language comedy-drama films
1990s Russian films
1990s Russian-language films
Lenfilm films
Adaptations of works by Aleksandr Kuprin
Films directed by Dmitry Astrakhan
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