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To Dream and to Live
To Dream and to Live

To Dream and to Live

5.0/10
April 1, 1974
83 minutes
Yurii Illienko
Drama

Overview

The script about loneliness, conformity and the impossibility of creative realization scared the editorial censorship at the studio, and then at Derzhkino. A lot of claims were made against him. The demands for amendments and endless additions and rewrites by the authors lasted for about a year. The original version of the title "Na pokhony!" ("To bow down!") was replaced by "To Dream and to Live". According to Pylyp Ilyenko, the director's eldest son, this name appeared "as a result of censor pressure." Censorship stopped the tape 40 times: at the stage of the literary script, director's, during film tests (the actors were not approved), filming, etc. The film catastrophically fell apart into fragments, into masterfully filmed, but unrelated scenes. The director called the finished version a "dead film".

Movie Details

Release Date

April 1, 1974

Runtime

83 minutes

Director

Yurii Illienko

Rating

5.0/10

Production Companies

Dovzhenko Film Studios

Cast

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