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The Boy and the Pigeon (1961)
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, Yevgeni Ostashenko
Drama · 19m
The boy wants to have a pigeon, but he can't afford to buy a bird. On the market for a pigeon asking for 100 rubles! Then he decides to buy a bird, bartering it for his father's album with stamps. Having caught a pigeon, the boy releases a bird into the sky. But the pigeon is returning to it's native dovecote, to it's former owner, who again demands money for it. This is a short movie about childhood and dreams, about the first life lessons that everyone has to face in childhood, when society and its laws bring changes into life, sometimes breaking the brightest dreams.
Cast
Nikolay Burlyaev
Vladimir Shurupov
Evgeniy Urbanskiy
Crew
- Director
- Andrei Konchalovsky, Yevgeni Ostashenko
- Screenplay
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Director of Photography
- Mikhail Kozhin
- Original Music Composer
- Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Details
- Original title
- Мальчик и голубь
- Release date
- 1961-04-01
- Runtime
- 19m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- VGIK