''Sasha Enters Life'' (russian: Саша входит в жизнь) is a 1957 remake of the 1956 film ''Tight Knot'', a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

drama film directed by

Mikhail Schweitzer Mikhail (Moisei) Abramovich Schweitzer (russian: Михаил (Моисей) Абрамович Швейцер, 16 February 1920, Perm – 2 June 2000, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1 ...

. In 1988 the original film was restored under the original name, ''Tight Knot''.

Plot

The chairman of the collective farm takes Sasha Komelev, the son of the dead secretary of the district committee, to his house. Sasha not only began to work hard, but also went to college. He spends his free time with a girl named Katya, but she preferred the new secretary of the district party committee. The latter turns out to be a careerist who does not care about

collective farm Collective farming and communal farming are various types of, "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member ...

s of the district, but Katya does not believe this.

Cast

Oleg Tabakov Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov (russian: Олег Павлович Табаков; 17 August 1935 – 12 March 2018) was a Soviet and Russian actor and the Artistic Director of the Moscow Art Theatre. People's Artist of the USSR (1988). Biography Tabak ...

as Sasha Komelev *

Viktor Avdyushko Viktor Antonovich Avdyushko (Russian: ''Виктор Антонович Авдюшко''; January 11, 1925 – November 19, 1975) was a Soviet actor and a People's Artist of the Russian SFSR. Biography Early life Avdyushko was born to a father ...

as Pavel Mansurov * Nikolai Sergeyev as Ignat Gmyzin *

Ivan Pereverzev Ivan Fyodorovich Pereverzev (russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Переве́рзев; 3 September 1914 – 23 April 1978) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1975). Filmography * '' The Convey ...

as Party Leader *

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 Party Leader *

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 Murgin, collective farm chairman * Valentina Pugachyova as Katya Zelentsova *

Valentina Berezutskaya Valentina may refer to: Entertainment Film * ''Valentina'' (1950 film), a 1950 Argentine film * ''Valentina'' (2008 film), a 2008 Argentine film Television * ''Valentina'' (1993 telenovela), a 1993 Mexican telenovela * Valentina (2013 telenov ...

as Nastya Baklushina *

Antonina Bogdanova Antonina may refer to: Geography * Antonina, Paraná, a municipality in Brazil * Antonina, Bełchatów County, in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland * Antonina, Pajęczno County, in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland * Antonina, Poddębice Co ...

as wife Gmyzina * Yuriy Medvedev as Meshkov * Svetlana Konovalova as Anna Mansurova *

Yelena Maksimova Yelena Aleksandrovna Maksimova ( rus, Еле́на Алекса́ндровна Макси́мова; November 23, 1905 – September 23, 1986) was a Soviet film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1958). Selected filmography * Women of Ry ...

as Sasha's mother *

Maya Bulgakova Maya Grigoryevna Bulgakova (russian: Ма́йя Григо́рьевна Булга́кова; 19 May 19327 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actress. She was one of the People's Artist of the RSFSR (1976). Biography Bulgakova was born on 1 ...

Oleg Yefremov Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov (russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Ефре́мов, 1 October 1927, Moscow, Soviet Union – 24 May 2000, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian actor and Moscow Art Theatre producer. He was a People's Artist ...

Valentina Vladimirova Valentina Kharlampiyevna Vladimirova (russian: Валентина Харлампиевна Владимирова; 22 November 1927, in Vasylivka – 23 March 1994, in Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p ...

as Pozdnyakova

Reviews

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 ...

: Another landmark work on the ideological shelf should be considered the ''Tight Knot'' by

, where the criticism of the collective-farm order was clearly too acute for the

Khrushchev Thaw The Khrushchev Thaw ( rus, хрущёвская о́ттепель, r=khrushchovskaya ottepel, p=xrʊˈɕːɵfskəjə ˈotʲ:ɪpʲɪlʲ or simply ''ottepel'')William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, London: Free Press, 2004 is the period ...

to begin with. The film was savagely rewired and released under the idiotic title ''Sasha Enters Life'', which forever discouraged Schweitzer from making a keen social film, and he devoted himself to screen versions of the classics. *

Maya Turovskaya Maya Iosifovna Turovskaya (russian: link=no, Майя Иосифовна Туровская; 27 October 1924 – 4 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian theatrical and film critic, film historian, screenwriter, and culturologist. She was awarded ...

: Tabakov with a good and authentic artlessness conveyed the first desperate grief and uncontrollable immediate joy of his seventeen years, his infantile maturity, touching disturbances of the first failed love and breaking boyish principles, all watercolor and tender play of a barely feminine, shy and direct character. But the actor in it has not yet groped his theme.Первая роль. Олег Табаков вступает в жизнь
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Меня как будто кто-то подменил: Памяти Олега Табакова
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