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Lessons at the End of Spring
- Director: Oleg Kavun
- Writer: Oleg Kavun
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You will have to take a step back...
Ignore the usual type of film-making that Hollywood has spoon fed you over the years...and marvel at this vision of humanity - in all of its depravity and civility.
Watch the growth of a young boy as his world comes crashing down around him.
It should be difficult to watch...but, it's not...due to Kavun making many of his characters into caricatures of bad and good - an impressive technique.
This is an anti-soviet film, a very brave film indeed - showing the era in all of its gloom - with a few shards of light...
A fine work indeed.
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The(ir) Blurb...
A young boy's loss of innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison is the harrowing, Kafkaesque premise of LESSONS AT THE END OF SPRING. During the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime, a teenager's errand to the village market for bread ends in a nightmarish confrontation with local police. Sadistic shower room confrontation, unsanitary detention facilities and a tomblike prison cell become classrooms on the horrors of the human soul. As his fellow captives are tortured, die or quietly lose their minds, the naive 13-year-old becomes an unwilling witness to startling lessons in honor, hatred, conscience and survival. Contains nudity and mature themes.
Cast & Characters
Aleksandr Feklistov;
Yuri Mazhuga;
Yuri Nazarov;
Danya Tolkachev