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

Павел Назаров

Динара Друкарова

Тосихиро Ватанабе

Лидия Доротенко

Лиана Жвания

Наталья Ипатова

Татьяна Иванова

Галина Кузнецова

Александр Баширов

Николай Харитонов

Иван Прайс

Владимир Иванов

Елена Антонова

Владимир Максимов

Crew

Виталий Каневский

Виталий Каневский

Виталий Каневский

Владимир Брыляков

Françoise Galfré

Patrick Godeau

Борис Рычков

Philippe Godeau

Елена Гагарина

Георгий Кропачёв