Directed by Vladimir Basov Music by Veniamin Basner | Produced by Victor Tsirul Cinematography Timofey Lebeshev | |
Written by Vladimir Basov
Yuri Bondarev Starring Vitali Konyayev
Georgy Martyniuk
Larisa Luzhina
Vladimir Yemelyanov
Mikhail Ulyanov | ||
Silence (Russian: Тишина) is a Soviet two-part feature film directed by Vladimir Basov and based on the 1962 eponymous novel by Yuri Bondarev. The film won the main prize of the All-Union Film Festival.
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Plot
1945. Together with other soldiers, demobilized after the end of World War II, Germany back 22-year-old captain Sergey Vohmintsev, commander of an artillery battery. A young soldier looks with hope to the future of peace, for he began dating a girl geologist Nina.
However, the joy of Sergei overshadows meeting with another former battalion commander - Arkady Uvarov, ruin your battery and to blame the young commander who was court-martialed, and died in a penal battalion. Vohmintsev, the only survivor of the tragedy witness publicly denounces Uvarov. The conflict arose in the restaurant finishes fine for disorderly conduct ... At a meeting of the new 1946, which comes along with Sergey Nina, is again Uvarov; He says patriotic toast and stuffed in friends, but Vohmintsev refuses to drink with him for Stalin and leads Nina, leaving guests. Uvarov, the second time just to avoid public exposure of its shameful past, do not forget.
Three years later. Sergey studies in Mining and Metallurgical Institute, which acted on the advice of Nina, and lives with her father and younger sister in a communal apartment, side by side with families Mukomolov artist - author of ideologically alien power of pictures and unscrupulous citizen Bykov, dreaming to expand their living space. Denounced by a neighbor or otherwise old communist Nikolai Vohmintsev arrested by MGB, but considers it a mistake and believes that in all sorted out. She believes in justice and Sergey: to defend the good name of the father in the competent authorities, it takes time, and it goes to the dean's office with a request for exemption from the passage of educational practice.
But the institute is already known about the arrest, and Uvarov - an A student, activist, member of the bureau and the best friend of the Secretary of the Party organization of the Institute - glad to take this opportunity and to destroy his accuser. Student Vohmintsev dismantled at the party bureau, remembering, and a suspicious case with the loss of the safe with documents when leaving the environment of the regiment, Commissioner who his father was and hooliganism in a public place and failure to drink to the health of the leader. On top of Uvarov, using his authority, Sergei cynically blames the crime that he committed - because other witnesses war has not left... The result - the decision to expel from the party Vohmintsev after which slandered the student submits a letter of resignation from the Institute.
Sergey went far out of their homes - in Kazakhstan, which with its tarnished the biography was able to get a job in their specialty, and lives, leaving no hope that sooner or later the truth will. The main thing is that he believes Nina. Maybe she will follow your favorite.