Poema o more

1958
1h 35m

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Interconnected stories of Soviet citizens trying to build a new future after World War II. Memories of the old, dreams of the young, and the residues of class mingle and clash.Interconnected stories of Soviet citizens trying to build a new future after World War II. Memories of the old, dreams of the young, and the residues of class mingle and clash.Interconnected stories of Soviet citizens trying to build a new future after World War II. Memories of the old, dreams of the young, and the residues of class mingle and clash.

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- 1 nomination total

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Boris Livanov

general Ignat Fyodorchenko
(as B. Livanov)

Boris Andreyev

Savva Zarudnyi
(as B. Andreyev)

Mikhail Tsaryov

Aristarkhov
(as M. Tsaryov)

Mikhail Romanov

Pisatel
(as M. Romanov)

Zinaida Kirienko

Katerina
(as Z. Kiriyenko)

Ivan Kozlovsky

Kobzar
(as I. Kozlovskiy)

Leonid Tarabarinov

Valeriy Golik
(as L. Tarabarinov)

Georgi Kovrov

Maksim fyodorchenko
(as G. Kovrov)

Mariya Vital

Antonina

Evgeniy Bondarenko

Ivan Kravchina
(as Ye. Bondarenko)

Valentina Vladimirova

Mariya Kravchina
(as V. Vladimirova)

Yevgeniy Agurov

Mikhail Grekov
(as Ye. Agurov)

Natalya Naum

Olesya
(as N. Naum)

Antonina Konchakova

Valya
(as A. Konchakova)

Leonid Parkhomenko

Ivan Gurenko
(as L. Parkhomenko)

Yevgeny Gurov

Grigoriy Shiyan
(as Ye. Gurov)

Kirill Marinchenko

Korzh
(as K. Marinchenko)

Vasiliy Vitrishchak

Basanskiy
(as V. Vitrishchak)

Director
- Yuliya Solntseva
Writer
- Aleksandr Dovzhenko
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Poem of the Sea

An outstanding Soviet drama conceived and written by Alexander Dovzhenko, the film was directed and completed by his widow Yuliya Solntseva following Dovzhenko's untimely death in 1956.

The backdrop of the film is a major Soviet era infrastructure project, the construction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric station on the Dnieper River in the Kherson Oblast.

Soon to be displaced, a diverse cast of characters recall their fond memories of life in the rural settlements which will soon be inundated by a vast inland sea.

Fascinating location filming captures the remarkable feat of Soviet engineering. Recently destroyed in the regional conflict, it is interesting to note that the dam was built in a time of collective harmony.

With philosophical meditations on nature and life and featuring wonderful traditional music, this film is a poetic and touching human drama. Historically, the film records the close-knit kinship of the rural communities and highlights an era of mutual collaboration. Highly Recommended Classic Soviet Cinema!!

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Trivia
In the late 1950s Mike Todd went to Moscow to discuss possible co-production deal. The proposed productions were to be shot in TODD-AO process, so a TODD-AO camera and DP-70 TODD-AO projector were shipped to Mosfilm studios to demonstrate system abilities. Midway into negotiations Mike Todd returned to the US and then died in an airplane crash. The project was abandoned. However the TODD-AO equipment remained in Moscow, and has been disassembled and studied at the NIKFI (Research Institute for Cinema and Photographic Technologies). The research on TODD-AO system was incorporated into Soviet 70mm film process, called Sovscope 70, and the original camera was reassembled and modified to run 70mm negative. It was used in production of "Poem of the Sea" together with 70mm hand-held camera and TODD-AO inspired 70mm studio camera manufactured by NIKFI, leading to the impression that the film was shot in TODD-AO. Since no 65mm negatives were used in this production, it would be correct to state that the filming process was Sovcope 70, even though one of the cameras was originally created for TODD-AO.