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July Rain

Iyulskiy dozhd

Soviet Union

1966

107 Min
Black and White
2.35:1
Russian
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DIR Marlen Khutsiyev

SCR Anatoli Grebnev, Marlen Khutsiyev

DP German Lavrov

CAST Yevgeniya Uralova, Aleksandr Belyavskiy, Yuri Vizbor, Aleksandr Mitta, Alla Pokrovskaya, Zinoviy Gerdt

ED A. Abramova

PROD DES Georgi Kolganov

MUSIC Bulat Okudzhava

SOUND Boris Vengerovsky

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Marlen Khutsiyev

Graduating from VGIK in 1952, Khutsiyev was among the first wave of filmmakers to emerge during the Soviet thaw. He remains one of Russia’s greatest living directors. After the critical and popular success of Spring on Zarechnaya Street, his next major film— eventually titled I am Twenty—underwent years of state-ordered rewrites, re-edits, and reshoots. Complicating the thaw’s liberal reputation, Khrushchev himself ordered some of the changes. While not as frank or experimental as originally intended, the completed film is still a deeply sympathetic contemporary drama. It won a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. He made a number of notable films in the sixties and seventies, particularly July Rain, and also worked for Soviet television. He returned to feature filmmaking in 1992 with Infinity, which won several awards at the Berlin Film Festival, and he’s currently working on a film based on the lives of Tolstoy and Chekhov. —Seagull Films 

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msmichel

16Aug11

Amazing picture. So happy to come across this one. Soviet response to new wave. 1966 picture reminiscient of Godard, Malle , Truffaut and perhaps a little La Dolce Vita as welll. Restless young woman flirting in and out of amourous adventures and encounters with upper class artistes trying to find her own identity. Not plot driven but pic certainly has a certain ennui. Available to watch on mosfilm youtube.

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Anton Williams

5Oct10

The highest rate of aesthetic pleasure.

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July Rain

By Glemaud on January 28, 2010

I’ll open by being quite hyperbolic: This is the best Soviet film of all time! That’s right, right out of the gates, I shock and awe. To call this film a Soviet New Wave — which is a title it’s garnered…  read review

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