A Man Changes Skin

A Man Changes Skin
A Man Changes Skin
Directed by
Written by	;
Starring	See below
Cinematography	Mark Kaplan
Music by
Release date	1960;
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

A Man Changes Skin (Russian: Человек меняет кожу, romanized: Chelovek menyaet kozhu) is a 1960 Soviet drama film directed by .^[1]

Plot[]

The construction of the Vakhsh Canal is underway which is one of the largest constructions of the first Five-Year Plan. Two Americans come by contract; a grizzled spy Colonel Bailey (Boris Vinogradov), who introduces himself as a harmless traveler by the name of Mr. Murray, only later to be caught red-handed and unmasked, and Mr. Clark (Sergei Kurilov), who arrives to the canal to "make money" and gradually becomes convinced that work and politics are not that different concepts. Not accepting socialism he is quite sympathetic to the enthusiasm of the Soviet people. Love for the Komsomol translator Maria Polozova (Izolda Izvitskaya) helps Clark to comprehend what is happening. In the middle of the construction is the engineer Urtabaev (Gurminch Zavkibekov), a strong, bright man, one of the first representatives of the Tajik intelligentsia. He is suspected of sabotage. However Urtabaev is not one of those who breaks under pressure - he proves his innocence concerning the sabotage and remains as one of the main construction authorities. On the festive opening day of the canal the last Basmachi gang is defeated in a fight which kills Komsomol leader Karim (Djakhon Sidmuradov).

Cast[]

Sergei Kurilov as Mr. Clark
Izolda Izvitskaya as Maria Polozova
as Saeed Urtabaev
as Colonel Bailey / Mr. Murray
as Hojiyarov
Sergei Golovanov as Morozov
as Fatkulla
Sergei Stolyarov as Sinitsin
Natalia Medvedeva as Valentina Sinitsina
as Yelena Myshkova
as Savelich
Vladimir Yemelyanov as Komarenko
as Karim

Remake[]

In 1979, director Boris Kimyagarov shot a film with the same title, where the main roles were played by Igor Kostolevsky, Boris Khmelnitsky, Larisa Udovichenko, Yuri Gorobets, Valentin Nikulin.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

A Man Changes Skin at IMDb

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[1] Человек меняет кожу on KinoPoisk

[2] Биография и фильмография Бориса Кимягирова на сайте kino-teatr.ru

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