Farewell (russian: Прощание, Proshchanie) is a 1983
Soviet
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drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
based on
Valentin Rasputin
Valentin Grigoriyevich Rasputin (; russian: Валентин Григорьевич Распутин; 15 March 193714 March 2015) was a Russian writer. He was born and lived much of his life in the Irkutsk Oblast in Eastern Siberia. Rasputin's w ...
's novel ''
Farewell to Matyora
''Farewell to Matyora'' (russian: Прощание с Матёрой) is a 1976 novel by Valentin Rasputin. The novel treats Rasputin's major theme of the baneful impact of industrialization and urbanization on peasant
A peasant is a pre-in ...
'' and 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 ...
.
Валентин Григорьевич Распутин: Биобиблиографический указатель
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Plot
The existence of the village of Matyora, located on a small island of the same name, is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam to serve a hydroelectric power plant
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined and ...
. The villagers oppose their displacement and the loss of their traditions, but are eventually forced to bid farewell to their homeland.
Cast
*Stefaniya Stanyuta
Stefanija Michajłaŭna Staniuta ( be , Стэфанія Міхайлаўна Станюта; 30 April 1905 – 6 November 2000) was a Belarusians, Belarus–Soviet people, Soviet theater and movie actress. She was awarded as the 1988 People's ...
as old Darya
*Lev Durov
Lev Konstantinovich Durov ( rus, Лев Константинович Дуров, p=ˈlʲef kənstɐnʲˈtʲinəvʲɪdʑ ˈdurəf; 23 December 1931 – 20 August 2015) was a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor who appeared in more than 200 ...
as Pavel Pinegin
*Aleksei Petrenko
Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (russian: Алексей Васильевич Петренко; 26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He played Grigori Rasputin in Elem Klimov's historical drama
''Agony' ...
as Vorontsov
*Leonid Kryuk as Petrukha
*Vadim Yakovenko as Andrei Pinegin
*Yuri Katin-Yartsev as Bogodul
*Denis Luppov as Kolyana
Production history
While scouting locations in June 1979 for her planned adaptation of the ecological fable, original director Larisa Shepitko
Larisa Yefimovna Shepitko (, uk, Лариса Юхимівна Шепітько, translit=Larysa Yukhymivna Shepitko; 6 January 1938 – 2 July 1979) was a Soviet film director, screenwriter and actress. She is considered one of the best fema ...
died in a car accident along with four members of her shooting team. After a delay the project was finally completed in 1981 by her widower 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 ...
and although shelved for a further two years, was eventually given a limited release in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...
in 1983. Originally chosen to open the 1984 Berlin Film Festival
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, it was initially refused an export licence until three years later when it was screened in Berlin.
References
External links
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Article on Proshchanie at Film Reference
Part 1 on Mosfilm's Youtube channel
Part 2 on Mosfilm's Youtube channel
1983 films
1983 drama films
Soviet drama films
Russian drama films
1980s Russian-language films
Films directed by Elem Klimov
Films set in Russia
Mosfilm films
Films scored by Alfred Schnittke
Films based on Russian novels
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