Movielogr
It (1989)
Directed by Sergei Ovcharov
Overview
The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin “The History of a Town”. In a metaphorical and grotesque form, the film conveys the history of Russia from the calling of the Varangians until the end of the 20th century. The film traces the change of the “chiefs” of the county town of Glupov, which differ in varying degrees of tyranny and the corresponding total number of “killed” city residents. The heads of the city easily guess the former heads of the Russian state and the USSR.
Length 124 minutes
Actors
Natalya Gundareva | Svetlana Kryuchkova | Yelena Sanayeva | Margarita Terekhova | Rolan Bykov | Yuri Demich | Leonid Kuravlyov | Rodion Nahapetov | Oleg Tabakov | Olga Pashkova | Oleg Shtefanko | Mikhail Pakhomenko | Vladimir Kashpur | Vera Glagoleva | Viktor Gogolev | Nikolay Muravyev | Irina Mazurkevich | Aleksandr Polovtsev | Aleksandr Galibin | Viktor Bychkov | Valeri Poroshin | Vyacheslav Tcoy | Anatoli Romashin | Aleksandr Vontov | Alexei Zubarev | Yuri Bashkov | Sergei Russkin | Iosif Krinskiy | Nikolay Dik | Nina Antonova | Lyubov Makeeva | Viktor Kazanovich