An Independent Life (1992)
1h 37m
Running Time
May 26, 1992Release Date
An Independent Life (1992)
1h 37m
Running Time
May 26, 1992Release Date
Plot.
This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.
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Cast & Crew.
Pavel Nazarov
Valerka
Dinara Drukarova
Valya
Toshihiro Watanabe
Ямамото
Elena Popova
Valerka's Mother
Vitali Kanevsky
Director
Larisa Zhvaniya
Софья Аркадьевна
Philippe Godeau
Producer
Boris Rychkov
Composer
Media.
Details.
Release DateMay 26, 1992
Original NameСамостоятельная жизнь
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 37m
Genres
Wiki.
An Independent Life (Russian: Самостоятельная жизнь, translit. Samostoyatelnaya zhizn) is a 1992 Russian film directed by Vitali Kanevsky. It is the second in a trilogy of autobiographical films. The film was an international co-production between companies in Russia, France and the UK, including StudioCanal and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. It tied with Dream of Light to win the Jury Prize, the third most prestigious award of the event, at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992.
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