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Stanislav Rostotsky Stanislav Iosifovich Rostotsky (russian: Станислав Иосифович Ростоцкий; 21 April 1922, in Rybinsk – 10 August 2001, in Vyborg) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter, the recipient of the two USSR State Prize ...

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Kirill Molchanov Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov (russian: Кирилл Владимирович Молчанов; 7 September 1922 – 14 March 1982) was a Russian and Soviet composer. He was appointed director of the Bolshoi, at the time political disfavour had ...

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Gorky Film Studio Gorky Film Studio (russian: Киностудия имени Горького) is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films. Many film classics were filmed at ...

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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 ...

, language = Russian , budget = Hero of Our Time (russian: Герой нашего времени, Geroy nashego vremeni) is a 1966 Soviet drama film directed by

Plot

The film is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucas ...

Cast

Vladimir Ivashov Vladimir Sergeyevich Ivashov (russian: Влади́мир Серге́евич Ивашо́в; 28 August 1939 — 23 March 1995) was a Soviet and Russian actor. Biography He had a film career that spanned over 30 years. He is best known for hi ...

as Pechorin (voiced by

Vyacheslav Tikhonov Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (russian: Вячесла́в Васи́льевич Ти́хонов; 8 February 1928, in Pavlovsky Posad – 4 December 2009, in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor whose best known role was as Soviet spy, ...

) * Aleksey Chernov as Maksim Maksimovich * Silvia Berova as Bela * Svetlana Svetlichnaya as Undine * Aleksandr Orlov as Young Officer * Nikolay Burlyaev as Blind man *

Sofiya Pilyavskaya Sofia ( ; bg, София, Sofiya, ) is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain in the western parts of the country. The city is built west of the Iskar river, and ha ...

as Old Woman * Stanislav Khitrov as Pechorin's Servant * Boris Savchenko as Yanko

Critical response

Film critic Mikhail Bleiman in

Iskusstvo Kino ''Iskusstvo Kino'' (Russian: Искусство кино, ''Film Art'') is a film magazine published in Moscow, Russia. It has been published since 1931 and is one of the earliest magazines in Europe which specialize on film theory and review al ...

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On the screen, there are simply illustrations for individual episodes of the novel, sometimes simplified, sometimes cinematically embellished. We did not see dramas of a strong character in an insignificant time.

References

External links

* {{1960s-drama-film-stub 1966 films 1960s Russian-language films Soviet drama films 1966 drama films Gorky Film Studio films Mikhail Lermontov Films based on Russian novels Films directed by Stanislav Rostotsky