La steppa (1962)

Director:

Alberto Lattuada

Writers:

Anton Chekhov (novel), Enzo Curreli,

Stars:

Charles Vanel, Daniele Spallone, Cristina Gaioni

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Charles Vanel	...	Pére Christophore
Daniele Spallone	...	Iégoruska
Cristina Gaioni	...	La fille du fleuve (as Cristina Gajoni)
Pavle Vujisic	...	Kuzmiciov (as Pavle Vuisic')
Marina Vlady	...	Comtesse Dranitsky
Pero Kvrgic	...	Mossèi
Michèle Bailly	...	La Gitane
Ljuba Tadic	...	Jemelian (as Juba Tadic)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Milan Bosiljcic
Ljiljana Krstic
Marianne Leibl
Milorad Majic	...	Pantalei
Natasha Petrova
Hermina Pipinic	...	Olga Ivanovna
Petar Prlicko

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

based on novel

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Genres:

Adventure | Family

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Details

Country:

Italy France Yugoslavia

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

17 January 1963 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Die Steppe

Filming Locations:

Yugoslavia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Aera, C.F.S. Kosutnjak, Zebra Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Version of Step (1979)

User Reviews

Blurb.

This is a lovely colorful adaptation of a novel by Anton Chekhov about the adventures of Jegoruska, an eight-year-old Russian boy, in a journey across the "steppe" or open plains of Russia on the en route from his home village to a market city where he is to go to school. It is in a way an allegorical trip which exposes him to some of the grimmest realities of life and some of its better ones. We get a social message as well, for example, the harsh conditions of the peasantry of 19th Century Russia. The director Alberto Lattuada often adapted Russian works or made films with Russian settings as in CUORE DI CANE, THE TEMPEST, and THE OVERCOAT. Most of the location scenes here were shot in Yugoslavia. The cast, which includes Charles Vanel as a priest and Marina Vlady as a countess, are uniformly good. Handsome young Daniele Spallone as the boy is marvelous.