To Dream and to Live
Мріяти і жити
The script about loneliness, conformity and the impossibility of creative realization scared the editorial censorship at the studio, and then at Derzhkino. A lot of claims were made against him. The demands for amendments and endless additions and rewrites by the authors lasted for about a year. The original version of the title "Na pokhony!" ("To bow down!") was replaced by "To Dream and to Live". According to Pylyp Ilyenko, the director's eldest son, this name appeared "as a result of censor pressure." Censorship stopped the tape 40 times: at the stage of the literary script, director's, during film tests (the actors were not approved), filming, etc. The film catastrophically fell apart into fragments, into masterfully filmed, but unrelated scenes. The director called the finished version a "dead film".
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Cast
Halyna Demchuk
as эпизод (нет в титрах)
Leonid Kuravlyov
as Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
Margarita Kavka
as эпизод
Larysa Kadochnykova
Nina Urgant
as мать Марии
Vladimir Volkov
as литейщик
Sigizmund Krishtofovich
as эпизод
Raisa Pyrozhenko
Yurii Illienko
as Герасим, литейщик
Yurii Mazhuha
as Яков Сукач
Volodymyr Oleksiyenko
as эпизод
Viktor Panchenko
as актёр
Agafya Bolotova
as эпизод
Rodion Nahapetov
as Константин Петрович, режиссёр
Valentina Vladimirova
as подруга матери
