Country: URSS
Year: 1968
Duration: 75'


Two partisan members assassinate a Nazi general and are in hiding. To force them to give themselves up, the German army round up the villagers and execute them en masse. This film was made in 1968 practically without money by actors, directors and cameramen of Kiev Drama Art School. It was the first experimental film of the film department, The art adviser was Vladimir Denisenko. He was the director film author and played one of the leading roles. The film was immediately prohibited, cut into episodes which were used at lectures for cinematographers. In 1984, Vladimir Denisenko suddenly died at the age of 54. In 1986, the Ukraine Filmmaker's Union got the only surviving copy of the destroyed film from Denisenko's relatives. After the only screening, the copy mysteriously disappeared. For two years, the relatives did their best to trace the copy. Then losing hope, they announced that they would appeal to the court. Three days later a van showed up at the studio and unidentified people threw to the ground two boxes which turned out to be the greatly damaged copy of Denisenko's film. In 1989 relatives and friends restored the copy in Talisman Studio where Roman Balayan is artistic director (he took an active part in the film's restoration).

Biography

film director

Vladimir Denisenko

Vladimir Denisenko was the artistic advisor at the Kiev Drama Art School in 1968, when Sovest' was made. He died at the age of 54 in 1984.

FILMOGRAFIA

A Soldier's Wife (1959), Roman and Franceska (1960), A Dream (1964), Brightening Up (1967), Sovest' (1968), Heavy Spike (1969), Tale of a Woman (1973).

Cast

& Credits

Regia e sceneggiatura e interprete: Vladimir Denisenko.
Production company: Kiev Drama Art School.
Foreign sales agent: USSR Filmmakers Union, 13 Vassiljevskaya St., 12385 Mosca, telex 411939.
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