Sibiriada (Siberiade) (1979)
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Sibiriada was controversial in the Soviet Union, but it received the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, the second most prestigious prize after the Palme d'Or. After making this film, director Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky moved to the West. In the story, the lives of two Siberian families lives are… More Sibiriada was controversial in the Soviet Union, but it received the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, the second most prestigious prize after the Palme d'Or. After making this film, director Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky moved to the West. In the story, the lives of two Siberian families lives are chronicled through three generations, beginning with the period just after the turn of the century, and carrying on through the '60s. Before the revolution, a poor boy is the same age as a girl from a rich family, who uses her family position to torment him. Meanwhile, his father has been building a "corduroy" wooden road into the forest. However, as the boy and girl grow up, they fall in love. Their union is forbidden by her family, and he is beaten by their henchmen and cast adrift at sea. During the Revolution, the girl flees her family, thinking to join her true love. Many years later, he returns to his village with his teenaged son, and discovers that the former rich girl was killed long ago. The teenaged boy, in turn, become a geological engineer, and returns to his father's village to look for oil. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Directed By
- Andrey Konchalovskiy
- Written By
- Andrey Konchalovskiy, Valentin Ezhov
- Genres
- Art House & International, Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- May 1, 1979 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
Come and see Andrei Konchalovsky's Siberiade.
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Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine
Prone to poetic abstraction and exuding a magical-realist's reverence for history.
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Cast
- Vladimir Samoylov
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Vitaliy Solomin
as Nikolai
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Natalya Andreichenko
as Anastasya Solomina
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Nikita Mikhalkov
as Aleksey Ustyuzhanin
- Pavel Kadochnikov
- Yelena Koreneva
- Igor Okhlupin
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Sergei Shakurov
as Spiridon Solomin
- Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev
- Konstantin Grigoryev
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Lyudmila Gurchenko
as Taya Solomina
- Ivan Dmitriev
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Yevgeny Perov
as Yerofei
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Mikhail Kononov
as Rodion Klimentov
- Pascal Aubier
