Movielogr
The Republic of ShKID (1966)
Directed by Gennadi Poloka
Overview
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
Length 103 minutes
Actors
Sergei Yursky | Yuliya Burygina | Pavel Luspekayev | Aleksandr Melnikov | Anatoli Stolbov | Georgiy Kolosov | Vera Titova | Виолетта Жухимович | Lev Vajnshtejn | Viktor Perevalov | Anatoliy Podshivalov | Yuri Rychkov | Aleksandr Tovstonogov | Vyacheslav Golubkov | Artur Isayev | Aleksandr Kavalerov | Владимир Максимов | Vladimir Vasiliev | Mikhail Vasilyev | Lyudmila Volynskaya | Anna Yesipovich | Liliya Gurova | Galina Teplinskaya | Nikolay Kuzmin | Boris Leskin | German Lupekin | Tamara Kolesnikova | Nikolai Godovikov