They're Calling, Open the Door

They're Calling, Open the Door
Directed by	Alexander Mitta
Produced by	R. Himmelfarb
Written by	Aleksandr Volodin
Starring	Elena Proklova Rolan Bykov Sergey Nikonenko
Music by	Veniamin Basner
Cinematography	Alexander Panasyuk
Edited by	Maria Kareva
Production company	Mosfilm CA Yunost
Release date	1965
Running time	79 min.
Country	USSR
Language	Russian

They're Calling, Open the Door (Russian: Звонят, откройте дверь, translit. Zvonyat, otkroyte dver) is a Soviet feature film of 1965 directed by Alexander Mitta, the debut of the twelve-year-old Elena Proklova in the cinema.

Plot

A fifth-grade student, Tanya (Elena Proklova), is in love with the pioneer leader Petya (Sergey Nikonenko), who is teased by one of her classmates. Tanya's father is a geologist, and her mother left for a while to see her husband; Tanya lives alone under the supervision of a neighbor in a communal apartment. To please the pioneer leader, she takes part in the search for an interesting person, one of the first soviet pioneers.

Cast

• Elena Proklova as Tanya Nechaeva
• Rolan Bykov as Pavel Vasilievich Kolpakov
• Sergey Nikonenko as Petya Kryuchkov
• Vladimir Belokurov as violinist Korkin
• Viktor Kosykh as Genka
• Valentina Vladimirova as watchman in theater
• Oleg Yefremov as Vasily Dresvyannikov
• Lyusyena Ovchinnikova as Tanya's mother
• Iya Savvina as Genka's mother
• Vladimir Balon as teacher of fencing
• Yekaterina Vasilyeva as physical education teacher
• Klara Rumyanova as Klara Mikhailovna
• Andrei Smirnov as tenant
• Pavel Lebeshev as Petya Kryuchkov's neighbor

Awards

• Venice Film Festival: Lion of San Marco — Grand Prize (Alexander Mitta)^[1]
• Mosfilm Award: Best Actress (Elena Proklova)^[2]

References

External links

• They're Calling, Open the Door on IMDb