''Wild Pigeon'' (russian: Чужая белая и рябой, Chuzhaya Belaya i Ryaboi, also known as ''Someone Else's White and the Speckled'' and ''The Stray White And The Speckled'') is a 1986 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 ...
written and directed by
Sergei Solovyov. It was entered into the main competition at the
43rd Venice International Film Festival, in which it won the
Special Jury Prize. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the
Best Foreign Language Film at the
59th Academy Awards
The 59th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 30, 1987, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.
[Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
Plot
The film takes place in the autumn of 1946, in a small provincial town in western
Kazakhstan
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. A local teenager Ivan Naydenov (Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko) nicknamed as "The Gray", is a passionate pigeon enthusiast who recklessly risking his life manages to catch a white dove which has unexpectedly appeared in the city. Other pigeon hobbyists of the city find out of The Gray's spoil and the dove hunting begins. Soon the thieves kidnap the pigeon from The Gray's pen at night. The Gray begins to search for and find the dove from the local "pigeon authority" – Kolya the Gypsy (Vladimir Steklov). The Gray cunningly recaptures his prey and realizing that the dove is still doomed releases it to freedom. All the events of the film unfold against the backdrop of a meager post-war life of the inhabitants of the town - a place of exile and evacuation.
Cast
*Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko as Ivan Naydenov "Gray"
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Aleksandr Bashirov
Alexander Nikolaevich Bashirov (russian: Александр Николаевич Баширов; born 24 September 1955, in Sogom) is a Russian film and theater actor, director and screenwriter. He performed in more than sixty films since 1986.
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as "Freak"
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Andrei Bitov as Pyotr Petrovich Startsev "Pepe" pianist, composer, ex-husband of Ksenia Nikolaevna
*Arkady Vysotsky as brother of "Duffer"
*Ilya Ivanov as Investigator Benjamin Jousse
*Tatiana Ignatova as spectator in the theater under the open sky
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Liubomiras Laucevičius as father of Ivan Naydenov
*Boris Ryakhovskiy as Rakov
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Ludmila Savelyeva
Ludmila Mikhailovna Savelyeva (russian: Людмила Михайловна Савельева; born January 24, 1942, in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She achieved lasting fame in the role of Natasha Rostova in the ...
as Xenia Nikolaevna Startseva, actress
*Anatoly Slivnik as Colonel Pylypenko
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Vladimir Steklov as Kolya's "Gypsy"
*Bapov Sultan as Murat, friend of Ivan Naydenova, a student of Pyotr Petrovich
*Vyacheslav Kuchanov as "Tushkan"
*Mikhail Levchenko (II) as "Joker"
*Sergey Mildenberger as second brother of "Duffer"
*Boris Olehnovich as Martyn
*Andrey Filozov as Savitsky
*German Schorr as Misha Nelyubov
See also
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References
External links
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1986 films
1986 drama films
Soviet drama films
1980s Russian-language films
Films directed by Sergei Solovyov
Films set in 1946
Films set in Kazakhstan
Venice Grand Jury Prize winners
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