100 Days Before the Command
100 Days Before the Command | |
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Directed by | |
Written by | |
Produced by | |
Starring | Vladimir Zamansky Armen Dzhigarkhanyan |
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Distributed by | Peccadillo Pictures |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
100 Days Before the Command (Russian: Сто дней до приказа, translit. Sto dney do prikaza) is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by ,[1] inspired by the eponymous novel written by .[2][3]
In order to get Gorki Studios to provide funding for the film, Erkenov and writers Yuri Polyakov and Vladimir Golodov provided the studio with two fake scripts in addition to the real one. The Russian government censored the film banned its export. It was not screened outside of the country until the Berlin International Film Festival in 1994 after Erkenov founded his own sales company.[4]
Synopsis[]
The film lays bare the cruelties inflicted on young Red Army recruits by their superiors at a training camp in Central Russia. The film has no narrative structure and rather than telling a story uses vignettes with minimal dialogue to expose the conditions in which Soviet army recruits lived. The film explores themes of homoeroticism.[5][6]
Cast[]
- Vladimir Zamansky as The Unknown Man
- Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Brigade Commander
- as Elin
- as Zub
- Valeriy Troshin as Kudrin
- as Zyrin
- as Belikov
- as Titarenko
- as Senior Lieutenant
- Elena Kondulainen as Death
- as Angel
- as Captain
- Maria Politseymako as woman in the field
- as lance-corporal
References[]
- ^ Menashe, Louis (2014-09-16). Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies. New Academia Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-0-9845832-2-5.
- ^ Поляков, Юрий (2009). Сто дней до приказа (in Russian). АСТ. ISBN 978-5-17-054344-1.
- ^ JPRS Report: Soviet Union. Military affairs. The Service. 1989.
- ^ Hansen, Eric (1994-03-14). "Sto Dney Do Prikaza". Variety. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
- ^ '100 Days Before the Command' DVD, Peccadillo Pictures cat no. PPDV005
- ^ "Sto dnei do prikaza | 100 Days Before the Command | 100 Tage, Genosse Soldat". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
External links[]
- 1990 films
- Russian-language films
- 1990 drama films
- 1990 LGBT-related films
- 1990 in the Soviet Union
- Gorky Film Studio films
- Soviet drama films
- Soviet films
- Soviet LGBT-related films
- LGBT-related drama films
- Military of Russia in films
- Films about military personnel
- 1990s Russian-language films
- Soviet film stubs
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