The Golden Gates
The Golden Gates

Movie·1971·1h 20m

The Golden Gates

Country

Soviet Union

Language

Russian

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The Story

Original title: Золотые ворота

The film-remembrance of the creative fate of the Ukrainian Soviet film director Alexander Dovzhenko, shot on his diaries. It has his statements about his work, about the role of the artist in society, his plans and sources of inspiration, his artistic style and the peculiarities of his worldview. Used excerpts from his films and documentary footage taken during the director's life, as well as filmed fragments of the unfinished scripts " The Death of the Gods” and “Tsar”.

Written By

Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Valeriy Karen

Cinematography

Georgi Rerberg

Music

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Themes

socialist realismukrainian culturenational representationcinema poetry

Production House

Mosfilm

Audience Score

65%

4 votes

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Timepass27%
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Perfection23%

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Cast

Roman Tkachuk

Roman Tkachuk

God / Peasant

Mykola Hrynko

Mykola Hrynko

Bishop

Pyotr Shcherbakov

Pyotr Shcherbakov

Gordei Truba

Valentina Telichkina

Valentina Telichkina

Madonna

Nikolai Gubenko

Nikolai Gubenko

Soldier Ivan

Sergey Nikonenko

Sergey Nikonenko

Tsar

Boris Sichkin

Boris Sichkin

Nesmachny

Sergey Bondarchuk

Sergey Bondarchuk

Narrator (Voice)

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Crew

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Writer

Yuliya Solntseva

Yuliya Solntseva

Director, Writer

Georgi Rerberg

Georgi Rerberg

Director of Photography

Valeriy Karen

Writer

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov

Original Music Composer

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