Country: Russia
Year: 1993
Duration: 1993
The story is set in 1965 in Gachina, a small Russian town that once was a holiday location for the czars. Kolia is burning with love for his singing teacher Vika PavIovna, but suffers only setbacks. His father, Levitin, is wanted by the police for possession of a collection of old coin that had been stolen from a museum. When the police arrives, Levitin has taken off. KoIia's mother is arrested in his stead and sentenced to a labor camp. A year goes by. Levitin, stricken with cancer, returns to the village. Kolia is occupied with arranging the reunion of his dying father and imprisoned mother. As it happens, a famous guest is expected in Gachina: Fidel Castro. A "Viva Cuba" concert is given at the factory where Kolia now works and during which he again sings under the direction of Vika Pavlovna. After the concert, Kolia takes his singing teacher home, and gets the kiss he has waited for so long. At the same moment, his father dies in his apartment. The next morning, Kolia steals a truck and drives to the field where the camp inmates work. He bribes the guard with three bottles of vodka and takes his mother for a last encounter with her deceased husband.
Biography
film director
Boris Frumin
Boris Frumin was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1947. He enrolled at the VGlK in Moscow where he made a short and worked as assistant to Grigori Kozintsev. He graduated in 1972. He directed his first feature, The Diary of the School Principal, for Lenfilm. But his third film, Errors of Youth, produced by Lenfilm in 1978, was "shelved" by Goskino. The ban prompted Frumin's departure for the United States, where he found a teaching position at the New York Institute of Technology. In 1989 he accepted an offer from Lenfilm to complete his Errors of Youth, at last liberated from censorship. In 1991 Frumin directed his first American film, Black and White. Viva Castro! marks Frumin's return to Russia.
FILMOGRAFIA
Three (cm, 1971), The Diary of the School Principal (1975), Family Melodrama (1976), Errors of Youth (1978), English Lesson (cm, 1983), Black and White (1991), Viva Castro! (1993).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Boris Frumin.
Director of photography: Sergey Yurizditsky.
Art director: Yuri Pashigorev.
Editor: Irina Gorokovskaya.
Music: Victor Lebedev.
Sound: Galina Lukina, Oksana Strugina.
Cast and characters: Pavel Zharkov (Kolia), Julia Sobolevskaya (Vika), Sergey Dontsov (Levitin), Anastasia Vesneva (Sveta), Olga Bikova (Lina), Natalia Kononova.
Production company: Star Kino Video, Kamennostrovsky 10, CEI-197101 St. Petersburg, Russia, tel. e fax +7-812-2385896.
Foreign sales agent: Boris Frumin, 721 Broadway #1054, New York, N.Y. 10003, USA, tel. +1-212-9981758, fax +1-212-9954063.
Director of photography: Sergey Yurizditsky.
Art director: Yuri Pashigorev.
Editor: Irina Gorokovskaya.
Music: Victor Lebedev.
Sound: Galina Lukina, Oksana Strugina.
Cast and characters: Pavel Zharkov (Kolia), Julia Sobolevskaya (Vika), Sergey Dontsov (Levitin), Anastasia Vesneva (Sveta), Olga Bikova (Lina), Natalia Kononova.
Production company: Star Kino Video, Kamennostrovsky 10, CEI-197101 St. Petersburg, Russia, tel. e fax +7-812-2385896.
Foreign sales agent: Boris Frumin, 721 Broadway #1054, New York, N.Y. 10003, USA, tel. +1-212-9981758, fax +1-212-9954063.
