''The Degraded'' (russian: Разжалованный , translit=Razzhalovannïy) is the second film by Alexander Sokurov. It was released in 1980 and is of 30 minutes duration.

Background

This film was Sokurov's first feature at Lenfilm. It was roughly based on a short story by the contemporary

Soviet 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 nation ...

writer,

Grigory Baklanov Grigory Yakovlevich Baklanov (russian: Григо́рий Я́ковлевич Бакла́нов) (11 September 1923 – 23 December 2009) was a Soviet and Russian writer, well known for his novels about World War II, and as the editor of the ...

. Baklanov asked that his name be removed from the credits because the only motif that was adopted from Baklanov's work was the scene of the transitional period from power to subordinance. The amateur Ilya Rivin played the main character and appeared in three further movies by Sokurov.

Miscellanea

Sokurov's first film, ''

The Lonely Voice of Man ''The Lonely Voice of Man'' (russian: Одинокий голос человека), also known as ''The Lonely Human Voice'', is the first full-feature film by Alexander Sokurov. It was originally filmed in 1978 and reconstructed in 1987 at the Le ...

'' appears in ''The Degraded'' when the protagonist is in a movie theater; Soviet officials in charge of cinema had yet to acknowledge the existence of Sokurov's earlier film.

References

External links

Sokurov's website
* 1980 films 1980 in the Soviet Union Films directed by Alexander Sokurov Lenfilm films 1980s Russian-language films Soviet short films 1980 short films Films based on short fiction {{short-film-stub