They're Calling, Open the Door
They're Calling, Open the Door (Russian: Звонят, откройте дверь, romanized: Zvonyat, otkroyte dver) is a Soviet feature film of 1965 directed by Alexander Mitta, the debut of the twelve-year-old Elena Proklova in the cinema.
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| Directed by | Alexander Mitta |
| Produced by | R. Himmelfarb |
| Written by | Aleksandr Volodin |
| Starring | Elena Proklova Rolan Bykov Sergey Nikonenko |
| Music by | Veniamin Basner |
| Cinematography | Alexander Panasyuk |
| Edited by | Maria Kareva |
Production company | Mosfilm CA Yunost |
Release date | 1965 |
Running time | 79 min. |
| Country | USSR |
| Language | Russian |
Plot
A fifth-grade student, Tanya (Elena Proklova), is in love with the pioneer leader Petya (Sergey Nikonenko), who is teased by one of her classmates. Tanya's father is a geologist, and her mother left for a while to see her husband; Tanya lives alone under the supervision of a neighbor in a communal apartment. To please the pioneer leader, she takes part in the search for an interesting person, one of the first soviet pioneers.
Cast
- Elena Proklova as Tanya Nechaeva
- Rolan Bykov as Pavel Vasilievich Kolpakov
- Sergey Nikonenko as Petya Kryuchkov
- Vladimir Belokurov as violinist Korkin
- Viktor Kosykh as Genka
- Valentina Vladimirova as watchman in theater
- Oleg Yefremov as Vasily Dresvyannikov
- Lyusyena Ovchinnikova as Tanya's mother
- Iya Savvina as Genka's mother
- Vladimir Balon as teacher of fencing
- Yekaterina Vasilyeva as physical education teacher
- Klara Rumyanova as Klara Mikhailovna
- Andrei Smirnov as tenant
- Pavel Lebeshev as Petya Kryuchkov's neighbor
Awards
- Venice Film Festival: Lion of San Marco — Grand Prize (Alexander Mitta)[1]
- Mosfilm Award: Best Actress (Elena Proklova)[2]
References
- They're Calling, Open the Door — Awards at the IMDb
- They're Calling, Open the Door at the kino-teatr.ru
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