U tvoyego poroga
USSR,
1964, 78 min
Shown in 1964
CREDITS
- dir
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Vassily Ordynsky
- scr
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Semyon Nagorny
- cam
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Igor Slabnevitch
- mus
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Veniamin Basner
- cast
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Nadezhda Fedosova, Pyotr Lyubeshkin, Liliya Dsyuba, Boris Yurchenko, Yuri Gorobets
- gga award
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Nadezhda Fedosova, Best Supporting Actress.
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COMMENTS
Vassily Ordynsky in person.
OTHER
It is a literal fact that there is not a single family in the Soviet Union today which did not suffer the loss of at least one member during World War II; and this is a nation of well over 200 million human beings. It is only natural therefore that, even 19 years after the war against Hitlerism ended, the people of that nation are still examining the Holocaust in books, in plays, in poems, stories and in film. The "doorstep" of the title is the outskirts of Moscow, that was almost captured by the Nazis. These are very ordinary people at war: simple soldiers and simple civilians. There are no "heroes" here—and no heroics—unless heroes, heroines and heroics are the stuff of daily life when a nation is on trial. And this, of course, is true. What emerges, then, is an inspiration to any nation anywhere, an index of what people are capable of doing.
—Alvah Bessie
FACTOID #51
The first silent film screened at the Festival (now an annual tradition) was The Scarlet Letter (1924) by the great Swedish director Victor Sjöström, on October 24, 1968. The film’s star, Lillian Gish, was honored with an in-person tribute two days later.
