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(Credited cast)| Igor Fomchenko | ... | Sasha | |
| Vladimir Zamansky | ... | Sergei | |
| Marina Adzhubei | ... | Mother | |
| Yuri Brusser | (as Yura Brusser) | ||
| Vyacheslav Borisov | (as Slava Borisov) | ||
| Aleksandr Vitoslavsky | (as Sasha Vitoslavsky) | ||
| Aleksandr Ilyin | (as Sasha Ilyin) | ||
| Lyudmila Semyonova | |||
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Natalya Arkhangelskaya | ... | Girl | |
| Zhenya Fedchenko | |||
| M. Figner | |||
| Gena Klyachkovsky | |||
| Igor Korovikov | |||
| Kolya Kozarev | |||
| Antonina Maksimova | |||
| Tatyana Prokhorova | |||
| G. Zhdanova | |||
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Каток и скрипка (Soviet Union: Russian title)The Skating Rink and the Violin
The Steamroller and the Violin
Violin and Roller
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Andrei Tarkovsky's school graduation project, the short film Katok i Skripka or Steamroller and the Violin (1960), by the words of Russian critic Maya Turovskaya, the first rate film, is promise of the things that would come so powerfully in his later films. The most important part of the little film was the joy of showing the beauty and poetry of the ordinary familiar things. The whole world of the film is saturated in colors, filled by myriads of playful solar spots, mirror reflections (yes, mirror - one of the favorite Tarkovsky's images is already presented here), patches of light on water, all living, pulsing, sparkling. Tarkovsky's camera man, the famous cinematographer Vadim Yusov recalls that the idea of the film came to young director after watching the French short film "Red Balloon" (1956) by Albert Lamorisse that ran successfully in the theaters at the time. "Red Balloon" defined the color palette of Tarkovsky's movie. The dominant color for Katok i Skripka was red mixed with yellow and compared to blue in the sky above and in the clothing of two main characters, the young boy playing violin and the grown up man, the driver of a steamroller, who had became his friend, even if for a short time.
I'd say that the first Tarkovsky's work is perhaps his most accessible, light, sweet, and warm - the terms we don't usually associate with the master of serious metaphysical, deeply philosophical, even cosmic films that lack conventional dramatic structure. I think it would be a good starting point for anyone interested in Tarkovsky's work. It is interesting to compare Katok i Skripka to Tarkovsky's next work, his first feature, astounding Ivanovo Detstvo (Ivan's Childhood), another film about a boy but completely different from Steamroller and the Violin.
For his diploma project, Andrei Tarkovsky won the first prize at the New York Student Film Festival in 1961.