''July Rain'' (russian: Июльский дождь, Iyulskiy dozhd) is a 1967 Soviet
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 ...
directed by
Marlen Khutsiev
Marlen Martynovich Khutsiev (russian: Марле́н Марты́нович Хуци́ев; 4 October 1925 – 19 March 2019) was a Georgian-born Soviet and Russian filmmaker best known for his cult films from the 1960s, which include ''I Am Twent ...
.
Plot
The heroes of the film are about thirty. Very often at this time people have a period of revision of the positions already developed earlier. Lena, the heroine of this film, comes to such revision. She has a lot to think about again.
She begins to understand that the previous assessment of the surface, all appears to her in a different, more clear and sharp light. It is sometimes associated with loss. Lena loses her former closest person who becomes a stranger and distant.
Cast
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Yevgenia Uralova as Lena
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Aleksandr Belyavsky as Volodya
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Yuri Vizbor
Yuri Iosifovich Vizbor (russian: Юрий Иосифович Визбор; June 20, 1934 – September 17, 1984) was a Soviet bard and poet as well as a theatre and film actor.
Vizbor was born in Moscow where he lived for most of his life. He ...
as Alik
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Yevgenia Kozyreva as Lena's Mother
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Alexander Mitta
Alexander Naumovich Mitta (russian: Алекса́ндр Нау́мович Митта́; born 28 March 1933 in Moscow) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and actor.
Mitta's birth name was Alexander Naumovich Rabino ...
as Vladik
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Alla Pokrovskaya
Alla Borisovna Pokrovskaya (russian: А́лла Бори́совна Покро́вская; 18 September 1937 – 25 June 2019) was a Soviet-Russian actress and educator.
Life
Pokrovskaya was born in Moscow her father was the opera director ...
as Lelya Kurikhina
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Valentina Sharykina
Valentina Dmitrievna Sharykina (russian: Валенти́на Дми́триевна Шары́кина; born 25 February 1940, Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. People's Artist of Russia (2000).
S ...
as Lyusya
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Ilya Bylinkin as Zhenya (as I. Bylinkin)
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Yuri Ilchuk as Leva
Reaction
Marlen Khutsiev's film was released at the very end of the
ottepel, at about the same time the films of
Andrey Konchalovsky
Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (russian: link=no, Андрей Сергеевич Михалков-Кончаловский; born 20 August 1937) is a Russian filmmaker. He has worked in Soviet, Hollywood, and contemporary Russian ...
,
Andrey Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky ( rus, Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greates ...
,
Kira Muratova
, honorific_suffix = People's Artist of Ukraine
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Soroca, Kingdom of Romania(now Moldova)
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, death_place = Odessa, Ukraine
, birth_name = Kira Gueórguievn ...
,
Alexander Alov
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович А́лов) (September 26, 1923 – June 12, 1983) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artis ...
and
Vladimir Naumov
Vladimir Naumovich Naumov (russian: Влади́мир Нау́мович Нау́мов; 6 December 1927 – 29 November 2021) was a Russian film director and writer. Naumov was named People’s Artist of the USSR in 1983. He was a schoolmate o ...
were put on the shelf.
References
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1967 drama films
1967 films
Soviet drama films
Films directed by Marlen Khutsiev
Mosfilm films
Soviet black-and-white films
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