Man Follows the Sun

Man Follows the Sun
(Человек идёт за солнцем)
Man Follows the Sun; (Человек идёт за солнцем)
	Film poster
Directed by	Mikhail Kalik
Written by	Valeriu Gagiu; Mikhail Kalik
Starring	Nika Krimnus
Cinematography
Edited by	Ksenia Blinova; Nikolay Chaika
Music by	Mikael Tariverdiev
Production; company	Moldova-Film
Release date	1962
Running time	72 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Man Follows the Sun (Russian: Человек идёт за солнцем, translit. Chelovek idyot za solntsem) is a 1962 Soviet drama film directed by Mikhail Kalik.^[1]^[2]

Plot[]

The film follows a little boy through the megacity (Chișinău) on his pursuit to get the sun, because, as another boy tells him that going straight he will be able to get the sun, walk around the globe, and return to the place of his departure but from a different side. The world of adults and the spaces they inhabit are viewed from a child's perspective.^[2]

Cast[]

as Sandu
Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev as Nikolai Chernykh, motorcycle racer
as Elya, motorcycle racer's wife
Anatoli Papanov as manager
as lottery tickets seller
as Koka, hairdresser
Valentin Zubkov as military musician
as truck driver
Valentina Telegina as woman reading a letter
Larisa Luzhina as Lenutsa
as Rike, inspector of Militsiya
as Lev, shoeshiner
as happy father
as Prince of Orange, construction worker
as fan de foot
as taxi driver

Reception[]

Administrative measures were taken against Mikhail Kalik because one brief erotic episode.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b Peter Rollberg, George Washington University (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 344. ISBN 9781442268425.
^ ^a ^b Lida Oukaderova (2017). The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw: Space, Materiality, Movement. Indiana University Press. p. 102. ISBN 9780253027085.

External links[]

Man Follows the Sun at IMDb

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[Rollberg-1] Peter Rollberg, George Washington University (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 344. ISBN 9781442268425.

[Oukaderova-2] Lida Oukaderova (2017). The Cinema of the Soviet Thaw: Space, Materiality, Movement. Indiana University Press. p. 102. ISBN 9780253027085.

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