100 Days Before the Command

100 Days Before the Command (Russian: Сто дней до приказа, translit. Sto dney do prikaza) is a 1990 drama film by Hussein Erkenov.

100 Days Before the Command
DVD cover
Directed byHussein Erkenov
Produced byAleksandr Zosimenko
Written byVladimir Kholodov
Yuri Polyakov
StarringVladimir Zamansky
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Oleg Vasilkov
Roman Grekov
Valeri Troshin
Aleksandr Chislov
Mikhail Solomatin
CinematographyVladislav Menshikov
Edited byGalina Dmitriyeva
Vladimir Portnov
Production
company
Distributed byPeccadillo Pictures
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
Running time
67 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Plot

Made in the final months of the Soviet Union, the film follows three young Red Army recruits, Zyrin, Belikov and Elin. The film has no narrative structure and rather than telling a story uses vignettes to show the conditions in which Soviet army recruits lived.[1]

Cast

  • Vladimir Zamansky as The Unknown Man
  • Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Brigade Commander
  • Oleg Vasilkov as Elin
  • Roman Grekov as Zub
  • Valeriy Troshin as Kudrin
  • Aleksandr Chislov as Zyrin
  • Mikhail Solomatin as Belikov
  • Sergey Romantsov as Titarenko
  • Sergey Bystritsky as Senior Lieutenant
  • Elena Kondulainen as Death
  • Oleg Khusainov as Angel
  • Sergey Semyonov as Captain
  • Maria Politseymako as woman in the field
  • Vadim Piyankov as lance-corporal

The author's reaction

Yuri Polyakov said the movie was bad, but he begged the director to give him the movie DVD when traveling abroad, to lecture at US universities.

References

  1. '100 Days Before the Command' DVD, Peccadillo Pictures cat no. PPDV005


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