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The Last Leaf (1959)
Directed by Gemma Firsova
Drama · 10m
A film adaptation of a short story by O. Henry. In a small neighborhood in Greenwich Village, two young artists, Sue and Johnsy, live in a three-story building. Johnsy has contracted pneumonia and is on the verge of death. Outside her window, leaves are falling from the ivy. Johnsy is convinced that as soon as the last leaf falls, she will die. In the same building, on the ground floor, lives the unsuccessful artist Behrman, who year after year dreams of painting a masterpiece but never even attempts to realize his dream. Academic student film work of the Department of Cinematography at Vserossiyskiy gosudarstvyennyy institut kinematografii imyeni S. A. Gerasimova (VGIK).
Cast
Natalya Abramova
Larisa Kadochnikova
Otar Iosseliani
Crew
- Director
- Gemma Firsova
- Director of Photography
- Robert Ruvinov
Details
- Original title
- Последний лист
- Release date
- 1959-11-09
- Runtime
- 10m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- VGIK