What a wonderful game
Colour, 10 reels, 2878 meters long
Screenwriter and director
PETR TODOROVSKY
Designer
VALENTIN KONOVALOV
Producer
MIRA TODOROVSKAYA
Production
“KRUG” Studio (“Mosfilm”) and “MYRABEL” Studio
Featuring
ANDREY ILYIN, GENNADY NAZAROV, DENIS KONSTANTINOV, GENNADY MITNIK, MARIA SHUKSHINA, LARISA UDOVICHENKO, YELENA YAKOVLEVA, YURY KUZNETSOV, NIKOLAY BURLYAYEV
… It is the beginning of the 50-es. Four student
friends live in one country students’ hostel of The College of Art. Although
they are often hungry but cheerful: playing jokes and pranks on one
another and the many other inhabitants of the hostel and certainly, they
are falling in love.
In a word, their life is in
full swing with passions and jokes typical for daily life and customs of the
hungry students’ Bohemia in those post-war years. And what a wonderful game
began when a brilliant idea came to their minds of using in their practical
jokes a radio set and Rybrin’s talent to imitate remarkably the voice of the
well-known announcer. Indeed that was the cleverest and exciting game they ever
had! However they have forgotten about the horrible times they are
living…
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko says:
It is one of the warm-blooded films rare in our days – in has a human body
temperature. For a long time in no genre, I was meeting such an overflow of love
to people. Seeing this picture, you are laughing with not stultifying but
intelligent
laughter and crying with purifying ennoble tears.
This film is a jolly and frightful excursion to our generation’s youth offered to the today’s youth. Though the picture end is chilling and freezing, I am sure that the film with its adoration of life can save many modern young people from suicide or cynicism.
Prize “Titra-film” of the International Film Festival (1996) in Geneva; Prize of the Festival “Cinema-Shock-95”; participation in the International Film Festivals in Moscow, Delhi, Monte Carlo.
