Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh (1974)

User Rating:

7.7/10   

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
Sergei 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.

Action Film

This is a great movie. It reminds me a little bit of "Beloye Solntse Pustini" or in English "The White Sun of the Desert", same type of the 1920's action movie. I think this movie has some of the best cinematography that I have ever seen in any film. This is a very easy going-enjoyable-smart action film. Mikhalkov did a great job.