Title Beanpole

Director Kantermir Balakov

Cast Viktoria Miroshnichenko. Andrey Bykov Igor Shirokov

Swedish distribution Stockholm film festival

Rate A

Far too few Russian movie as been scene on the Swedish scene and this really great to see a work like Kantermir Balakov one that have had also a prize. It show to us the life in the town in that time Leningrad but as I prefer to say Petersburg in the year 1945 and develop the topic of the war veteran and here we have some girl Ilya play by Viktoria Miroshnichenko. She remain m with here pure grace but also the chock of explosion (she was in the crew of and tank destroyer battery) that will destroy all her life of Ivan i Andrej Tarkovskij “Ivan childhood ” ; she is a nurse that train to cure young man that has come back from war. In the hospital she gains the attention even if she is real frigid and afraid of sexual Intercourse of a medical officer Nikolay Ivanovich that show the really charm of the Russian actor (it isn’t a mare case that two of the great theatre theoretic Kostantin Stanislavskij and to show how with a masque of naturalism one can disguise a really had a deep study of the character Ilya is a lone wolf that wants to keep only for her self and for the young child Peshka play by Timofey Glazko. Kantermir Balakov show uus that in using this child actor Timofey Glazko the teaching of Francois Truffauld that one “shoot” child because one love them, and film most beautiful and refined scene . The main problem in this dram shoot mainly in old over crowdest appartamnt that remains a lot of the one in Zar Russian is that Peeka is not Illy’s boy but the on Masha stage by Vasilisa Perelygina , that is a speedy actress that show to be full of life and rather speeding . It is rather genial that the photography of Kseniya Seredais modern and full of similarity to “Games of Throndes and how the ending of Igor Litoninskiy gives the possibility of see the really drama also of Maskas boy frind the young Vladimir Putin Igor Shirokov.His kind of style is really good and the great studied i show this drma that doesn’t use flask back for show the war is soo deepl influnce by Anton Checkov. This show from Sacha’s partens mostely the mother Saha- Ludova stage Ksenia Kutepova . She lives in a 18th century manso and have to dogs. One of the most difficult sceen that gives so much problem is to see how the former snipper Stephan pla and the drama of the wife play by the great ctress Alena Kuchkova her capacity and intesity remain about Anna Magnani ‘s role that she play i Roberto Rossellini’ s ”Rom open city”. It is less heroically but so intense and will go to film history.

Robert Fogelberg Rota