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".
Yurii Illienko
Director
Larysa Kadochnykova
Rodion Nahapetov
Константин Петрович, режиссёр
Yurii Illienko
Герасим, литейщик
Nina Urgant
мать Марии
Valentina Vladimirova
подруга матери
Oleh Polstvin
Seryozha Statsenko
Leonid Kuravlyov
Иван Григорьевич, механизатор-тракторист, режиссёр
Yurii Mazhuha
Яков Сукач
Vladimir Alekseyenko
эпизод
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167%
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