Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh (1974)

Director:

Nikita Mikhalkov

Writers:

Nikita Mikhalkov (writer)
Eduard Volodarsky (writer)

Release Date:

11 November 1974 (Soviet Union)

Genre:

Action

Plot:

Set during the Civil War between the Reds and the Whites that followed the 1917 revolution in Russia |

Plot Keywords:

Undercover Agent | Murder | Train Crash | Russian Civil War | Jewelry Heist

Cast

Yuri Bogatyryov	...	Shilov
Nikita Mikhalkov	...	Brylov
Sergey Shakurov	...	Zabelin
Aleksandr Kalyagin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Aleksandr Adabashyan
Aleksandr Borisov
Mikhail Chigaryov
G. Dovezhko
S. Frolov
Boris Galkin
A. Geller
Aleksandr Gradsky	...	A song (voice)
V. Grudnev
V. Izaidayev
Aleksandr Kaidanovsky	...	Lemke
Mikhail Kislov		(as M. Kislov)
Valentin Komissarov		(as V. Komissarov)
Ye. Kozhokhin
Gennadi Krasheninnikov
N. Kugel
Yuri Kuznetsov
Galina Mikeladze		(as G. Mikeladze)
Ye. Mokhova
V. Monashin
V. Nikiforovsky
K. Orlov
Oleg Panov		(as O. Panov)
Nikolai Pastukhov
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov	...	Kungarov
Konstantin Rajkin	...	Kayum
Kh. Rasayev
O. Savchenko
Ye. Shadrina
Viktor Shcherbakov		(as V. Shcherbakov)
Anatoli Solonitsyn	...	Sarychev
M. Tamayev
V. Tatarashvili
Vladimir Tochilin		(as V. Tochilin)
Vadim Vilsky		(as V. Vilsky)
Aleksandr Yakovlev
Nikolai Zasukhin
G. Zveryov

Also Known As:

Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих (Soviet Union: Russian title)
At Home Among Strangers, Stranger at Home (International: English title)
Friend Among Strangers, Stranger Among Friends (International: English title)

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

Achkhoy-Martanovskiy District, Chechen Republic, Russia

Company:

Mosfilm

Trivia:

Mosfilm gave the production crew exactly 5400 m of color Kodak stock for the whole movie, therefore parts of the movie and some demanding sequences, like the train robbery, had to be filmed on cheaper black and white stock.

Mikhalkov's probably only true masterpiece, best-ever "borshch" Western

Should really be recognized as a Western classic, or at least world's best "Eastern" - Mikhalkov follows the rules of the genre impeccably, easily weaving in 1920's Russia setting, revolutionary romanticism and "cool" charismatic bad guys, a rare thing in Soviet cinema. Cast is superb - probably the best combination of young actors of the decade, including Mikhalkov himself as Yesaul.