Silence (1963 Film)
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Silence () is a Soviet two-part feature film directed by
Vladimir Basov Vladimir Pavlovich Basov (28 July 192317 September 1987) was a Soviet Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1983. Biography Vladimir Basov was born in the Urazovo village, Voronezh Governor ...
and based on the 1962 novel of the same name by
Yuri Bondarev Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev (, 15 March 1924 — 29 March 2020) was a Soviet and Russian writer and screenwriter. He was best known for co-authoring the script for the serial film franchise ''Liberation'' (1968–71). Biography Bondarev took part ...
. The film won the main prize of the
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.


Plot

In 1945, with other servicemen, demobilized after the end of World War II, 22-year-old Captain Sergey Vohmintsev, commander of an artillery battery, returns from Germany. The young soldier looks with hope to the future of peaceful life, for he began dating a girl geologist Nina. However, Sergei's joy is overshadowed by a meeting with another ex-battalion commander, Arkady Uvarov, who left his battery to perish and shifted the blame to a junior commander who was court-martialled and killed in a penal battalion. Vokhmintsev, the only survivor of the tragedy, publicly denounces Uvarov. The conflict that arose in the restaurant ends with a fine for petty hooliganism. At the meeting of the new 1946, where Sergei comes along with Nina, Uvarov again appears. He utters patriotic toasts and offers his friendship, but Vohmintsev refuses to drink with him for
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and leads Nina away, leaving the guests. Uvarov, who for the second time hardly avoided publicly exposing his shameful past, did not forget this. Three years later. Sergey studies in the Mining and Metallurgical Institute, where he went after the advice of Nina, and lives with her father and younger sister in a communal apartment, side by side with family of the artist Mukomolov, who is the author of paintings called ideologically alien by the authorities, and the unprincipled citizen Bykov, dreaming to expand his living space. Denounced either by his neighbor or by someone else, the old communist Nikolai Vohmintsev gets arrested by MGB, but he considers this to be a mistake and believes that everything will be sorted out. Sergey also believes in justice: to defend the good name of his father before the competent authorities, he needs time, and so he comes to the dean's office with a request to exempt him from the summer internship. But the institute has been already informed about his father's arrest, and Uvarov, being an excellent student, activist, a member of the bureau and best friend of the Party Secretary of the institute, is happy to take advantage of the opportunity and destroy his accuser. Student Vohmintsev is severely told off during the party committee, where everything gets recalled at once: the suspicious case with the loss of the safe with documents after the regiment where his father was the Party commissary got out of the besiegement, the hooliganism in a public place, the refusal to drink for the health of the leader. To crown it, Uvarov, using his authority, cynically accuses Sergei of the crime he himself has committed: after all, the war did not leave any other witnesses. This results in the decision to expel Vohmintsev from the Communist Party after which the maligned student submits the letter of resignation from the institute. Sergei leaves far away from his native place, to
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, where even with his stained biography he is able to get a job in his specialty, and lives without abandoning the hope that sooner or later the truth will be uncovered. Most important is that Nina believes him. Perhaps she will decide to join her beloved.


Cast

* '' Vitali Konyayev'' as ''Sergey Vohmintsev'' * ''
Georgy Martyniuk Georgy Yakovlevich Martyniuk ( rus, Георгий Яковлевич Мартынюк, p=ɡʲɪˈorɡʲɪj ˈjakəvlʲɪvʲɪtɕ mərtɨˈnʲuk; 3 March 1940 – 13 February 2014) was a Russian film and theater actor. Biography Born in Orenbu ...
'' as ''Konstantin Korabelnikov'' * '' Larisa Luzhina'' as ''Nina'' * ''Natalya Velichko'' as ''Asya Vohmintseva, Sergei's sister'' * '' Mikhail Ulyanov'' as ''Pyotr Ivanovich Bykov'' * ''
Vladimir Yemelyanov Vladimir Nikolayevich Yemelyanov (; 20 June 1911 – 2 July 1975) was a Soviet actor and producer who appeared in 42 films between 1953 and 1975. He is most known for '' Road to Life'' (1955), '' The Immortal Garrison'' (1956) and '' Plane ...
'' as ''Nikolai Grigorievich Vohmintsev'' * ''
Georgiy Zhzhonov Georgiy Stepanovich Zhzhonov (, ; 22 March 1915 – 8 December 2005), was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and writer. He is known for playing the spy Mikhail Tulyev in the "Resident" quartet of films, '' Beware of the Car'' (1966), '' ...
'' as ''Akim Nikitich Gnezdilov'' *''
Vladimir Zemlyanikin Vladimir Mikhailovich Zemlyanikin (; 27 October 1933 – 27 October 2016) was a film and theater actor. He was an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1994).
'' as ''Grigory Kosov'' * '' Yevgeni Lazarev'' as ''Arkady Uvarov'' * ''
Ivan Pereverzev Ivan Fyodorovich Pereverzev (; 3 September 1914 – 23 April 1978) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1975). From his relationship with the actress Alla Larionova, he had a daughter, Alyona. Filmog ...
'' as ''Lukovsky'' * '' Lidiya Smirnova'' as ''Seraphima Ignatyevna Bykova'' * ''
Vladimir Basov Vladimir Pavlovich Basov (28 July 192317 September 1987) was a Soviet Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1983. Biography Vladimir Basov was born in the Urazovo village, Voronezh Governor ...
'' as ''driver''


Release

The film takes 365th place in the history of Soviet hire. It was watched by a 30.3 million audience.


References


External links

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