''Adventures of a Dentist'' (russian: Похождения зубного врача, Pokhozhdyeniya zubnovo vracha) is a 1965

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dark comedy Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discus ...

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

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directed by

Elem Klimov Elem Germanovich Klimov (russian: link=no, Элем Германович Климов; 9 July 1933 – 26 October 2003) was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker. He studied at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, and was married to film dire ...

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. It is currently available to view through the Criterion Channel, and is occasionally screened at

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon ...

Plot

dentist A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry (the diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases and conditions of the mouth, oral cavity and other aspects of the craniofaci ...

is derided (and eventually has his life ruined) by his colleagues for his natural talent of painlessly pulling out teeth.

Cast

Andrey Myagkov Andrey Vasilyevich Myagkov (russian: link=no, Андрей Васильевич Мягков; 8 July 1938 – 18 February 2021) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and writer. He is best known for his roles in famous ...

as Sergey Petrovich Chesnokov * Vera Vasilyeva as Lyudmila Ivanovna Lastochkina *

Alisa Freindlich Alisa Brunovna Freindlich (russian: Алиса Бруновна Фрейндлих, born 8 December 1934 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1981). Since 1983, Freindlich has been a leading ac ...

as Masha *Panteleymon Krymov as father of Masha *Olga Gobzeva as Tanya *

Igor Kvasha Igor Vladimirovich Kvasha (russian: Игорь Владимирович Кваша; 4 February 1933 — 30 August 2012) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He was a leading actor of Sovremennik Theater. Igor Kvasha was one of the So ...

as Merezhkovsky, a fighter for justice *

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 ...

as a sick man, brought for a "demonstrative" tooth extraction *Yevgeniy Perov as Yakov Vasilyevich Rubakhin *

Andrei Petrov Andrey Pavlovich Petrov (russian: Андре́й Па́влович Петро́в; September 2, 1930 – February 15, 2006) was a Soviet and Russian composer. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1980. Andrey Petrov is known for his mu ...

as Kotikov, Chesnokov's boss *Leonid Diachkov as fiancé of Masha *Elizaveta Nikischihina as student Zavalniuk *Lybov Korneva as Karpova, medical student *Svetlana Starikova as Komsomol leader

Production

The film was shot in

Kaluga Kaluga ( rus, Калу́га, p=kɐˈɫuɡə), a city and the administrative center of Kaluga Oblast in Russia, stands on the Oka River southwest of Moscow. Population: Kaluga's most famous resident, the space travel pioneer Konstantin Tsiol ...

on Dostoevsky Street, Bauman Street, Pushkin Street, Stary Torg Square, Assumption Church.

Background

The film's implication, that society inevitably ostracizes those who are gifted, horrified censors who told Klimov to change it. When Klimov refused, the film was given the lowest classification: "category three", which meant that it was shown in only 25-78 movie theatres. Only about half a million viewers saw the film when it premiered. In the West, the film has gained recognition due to it being directed by Klimov (most known for his film ''

Come and See ''Come and See'' (russian: Иди и смотри, ''Idi i smotri''; be, Ідзі і глядзі, ''Idzi i hliadzi'') is a 1985 Soviet anti-war film directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko and Olga Mironova. Its screenplay, wr ...

''), and it has been screened at several film festivals in the last few years.

Andrei Plakhov Andrei Stepanovich Plakhov (russian: Андрей Степанович Плахов) (born 14 September 1950) is a Russian film critic and historian of cinema, columnist for ''Kommersant'' newspaper. Honorary President of the International Federat ...

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References

External links

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An overview of Elem Klimov's career at kinoeye.org
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