Cinema
Тривожна молодість
Synopsis
During the civil war, in a border town of Ukraine given over to disorder and unrest, the schoolboys fight the scouts, the scouts fight the poor kids, and the latter fight everyone. Petka Maremukha, drawn to the scouts' uniform and discipline, would nevertheless like his former comrades, Vasyl Mandzhura and Halia, to take him back into their gang; and the children's quarrels soon join the fighting for power.
Context
Based on Volodymyr Bieliaiev's trilogy about the old fortress, on whose screenplay the author himself worked, the film was shot in 1954 by the Kyiv studio at Kamianets-Podilskyi, where the novel is set, and was released in 1955; it was the second adaptation of the book filmed in that town. The two directors were signing their first film of their own, having completed that of their teacher, left unfinished at his death.
Who it is for
A black-and-white film of adventure and teenage gangs, set against the background of the civil war; the book it is taken from was common reading for Soviet youth.
Prizes and reception
The first of the two films the duo made at the Kyiv studio, before leaving for Moscow in 1957.
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