''A Man Changes Skin'' (russian: Человек меняет кожу, Chelovek menyaet kozhu) is a 1960

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directed by Rafail Perelshtejn.

Plot

The construction of the Vakhsh Canal is underway which is one of the largest constructions of the first Five-Year Plan. Two Americans come by contract; a grizzled spy Colonel Bailey (Boris Vinogradov), who introduces himself as a harmless traveler by the name of Mr. Murray, only later to be caught red-handed and unmasked, and Mr. Clark (Sergei Kurilov), who arrives to the canal to "make money" and gradually becomes convinced that work and politics are not that different concepts. Not accepting socialism he is quite sympathetic to the enthusiasm of the Soviet people. Love for the

Komsomol The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...

translator Maria Polozova (

Izolda Izvitskaya Izolda Vasilyevna Izvitskaya (russian: Изо́льда Васи́льевна Изви́цкая, 21 June 1932 – 1 March 1971) was a Soviet actress. Isolda Izvitskaya was born in the small town of Dzerzhinsk, Russia. Her father was a chemist, ...

) helps Clark to comprehend what is happening. In the middle of the construction is the engineer Urtabaev (Gurminch Zavkibekov), a strong, bright man, one of the first representatives of the

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intelligentsia The intelligentsia is a status class composed of the university-educated people of a society who engage in the complex mental labours by which they critique, shape, and lead in the politics, policies, and culture of their society; as such, the in ...

. He is suspected of sabotage. However Urtabaev is not one of those who breaks under pressure - he proves his innocence concerning the sabotage and remains as one of the main construction authorities. On the festive opening day of the canal the last Basmachi gang is defeated in a fight which kills Komsomol leader Karim (Djakhon Sidmuradov).

Cast

*Sergei Kurilov as Mr. Clark *

as Maria Polozova * Gurminch Zavkibekov as Saeed Urtabaev *

Boris Vinogradov Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his ...

as Colonel Bailey / Mr. Murray * Asli Burkhanov as Hojiyarov *

Sergei Golovanov Sergey Vladimirovich Golovanov (russian: Сергей Владимирович Голованов; born 25 July 1968 in Saransk, Republic of Mordovia) is a priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite. Biography Early l ...

as Morozov * Abdulkhair Kasymov as Fatkulla *

Sergei Stolyarov Sergei Dmitrievich Stolyarov (russian: Серге́й Дми́триевич Столяро́в; – 9 December 1969) was a film and theater actor. The winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree (1951). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1969). Mem ...

as Sinitsin * Natalia Medvedeva as Valentina Sinitsina *

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as Yelena Myshkova *

Pavel Volkov Pavel (Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian and Macedonian: Павел, Czech, Slovene, Romanian: Pavel, Polish: Paweł, Ukrainian: Павло, Pavlo) is a male given name. It is a Slavic cognate of the name Paul (derived from the Greek Pavlos). Pavel ...

as Savelich *

Vladimir Yemelyanov Vladimir Nikolayevich Yemelyanov (russian: Владимир Николаевич Емелья́нов; 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 '' Ro ...

as Komarenko * Djakhon Sidmuradov as Karim

Remake

In 1979, director Boris Kimyagarov shot a film with the same title, where the main roles were played by

Igor Kostolevsky Igor Matveyevich Kostolevsky (russian: Игорь Матвеевич Костолевский; born 10 September 1948) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He has received the People's Artist of Russia title in 1995. Kostolevsky is best k ...

Boris Khmelnitsky Boris Alexandrovich Khmelnitsky (russian: Борис Александрович Хмельницкий; born on 27 June 1940 in Ussuriysk, died on 16 February 2008 in Moscow) was a Russian theatre and movie actor. Biography He worked many years ...

Larisa Udovichenko Larisa Ivanovna Udovichenko (russian: link=no, Лариса Ивановна Удовиченко; born 29 April 1955, Vienna, Austria) is a Russian actress. People's Artist of Russia (1998).

Yuri Gorobets Yuri Vasilievich Gorobets (russian: Юрий Васильевич Горобец; 15 March 1932 – 27 June 2022) was a Soviet and Russian theater and cinema actor. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1993). Laureate of the State Prize o ...

and

Valentin Nikulin Valentin Yuryevich Nikulin (russian: Валенти́н Ю́рьевич Нику́лин; 7 July 1932, Moscow — 6 August 2005, Moscow) was a Soviet, Russian and Israeli theater and film actor. Nikulin was born in the family of the playwright ...

.Биография и фильмография Бориса Кимягирова на сайте kino-teatr.ru
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References

External links

* 1960 drama films 1960 films Soviet drama films 1960s Russian-language films Soviet black-and-white films Films based on Russian novels {{USSR-film-stub