Седьмой спутник (1968)

Drama War

German apparently disavowed this, his first film, because of his co-director Grigori Aranov's more classical approach (and his kowtowing to Soviet authority); too bad, because it's something of a knockout. A brilliant, gripping portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a superlative character study in General Adamov (Andrei Popov), a law professor in the tsarist army, who is incarcerated by the Bolshevik secret police along with many other members of the bourgeoisie. Finally released into the new world of the Soviet Union, the resigned officer finds that he has lost everything from his old life except a mantel clock that he carries through the night from place to place, until he ends up, like Rossellini's inmate seeking readmission to prison in Dovè la liberta?, back where he started.

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Runtime: 89 mins Rating: 7.2

Cast

Anatoli Romashin

Lieutenant

Aleksey Batalov

Commissar

Pantelejmon Krymov

Andrei Popov

Maj. Gen. Adamov

Georgiy Yumatov

Vladimir Osenev

Priklonski

Liliya Gritsenko

Vladimir Erenberg

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Crew

Isaak Shvarts

Original Music Composer

Edgar Dubrovsky

Screenplay

Yuri Klepikov

Screenplay

Aleksey German

Director

Eduard Rozovsky

Director of Photography

Boris Lavrenyev

Screenplay

Igor Vuskovich

Production Design

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Седьмой спутник (1968)

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