Release Date

26 May, 1992

Runtime

01:37: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ("Freeze-Die-Come to Life"). At the end of that film, set at the conclusion of World War II, the young Valerka was striving hard to overcome the inertia of just getting by, along with his sometime friend Galiya. In this one, he is adjusting to Galiya's death and is back in school and is living with his mother, a prostitute. After a girl at the school is found to have been gang-raped, the headmaster chooses Valerka to be one of the scapegoats, though he had nothing to do with the deed. The punishment seems mild enough, he was simply expelled from school. However, after quarrelling with his mother about the incident, he takes to the road, and discovers a society so bleak, degraded and hopeless that it is a wonder he remained alive.

Original Title

Самостоятельная жизнь

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Actors

Елена Попова

Pavel Nazarov

Dinara Drukarova

Toshihiro Watanabe

Лидия Доротенко

Лиана Жвания

Natalya Ipatova

Татьяна Иванова

Galina Kuznetsova

Александр Баширов

Nikolay Kharitonov

Ivan Prais

Владимир Иванов

Elena Antonova

Владимир Максимов

Crew

Vitali Kanevsky

Vitali Kanevsky

Françoise Galfré

Vitali Kanevsky

Vladimir Brylyakov

Boris Rychkov

Patrick Godeau

Hélène Gagarine

Philippe Godeau