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A Soviet movie by Elem Klimov made in 1964. Nice and funny comedy with strong satire on Soviet life. Takes place in a summer camp, most of actors are children, while the main protagonist is the director comrade Dynin Evgeni Evstigneev, who eats melon several times ("dynya" in Russian).
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[edit] Plot (contains spoliers)
In the summer camp the director is afraid of every free movement. All is regulated according to standard. One boy named Kostya Inochkin (Viktor Kosykh) trespasses the rules, swimming to island. He is expelled from camp, but fearing to bring sorrow to his grandmother, returns to camp ilegally. Soon other kids start helping him to stay, being more smart than adults. Adults are added to the plot also later. Finally the director is overthrown and expelled to town. Final scene contains happiness of freedom without Dynin's dictatorship, kids and adults swim and even unrealistically jump over the river, a possible parable to going abroad to meet formerly forbidden people. Film also makes jokes about popular in Nikita Khrushchev's "corn - queen of fields".
[edit] History
In the middle of the making, there was a cable to stop filming, but it was still finished. The movie released to screen soon after dismissal of Nikita Khrushchev as a part leader. According to some sources this allowed the film to be screened. Others say that the leader himself allowed the movie. 13.4 million viewers saw it in USSR, movie had a good critical acclaim. In UK the movie had title "No Holiday for Inochkin".
[edit] External sources
- IMDB site
- 100 Great Russian Movies, Moscow, 2006
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