Mirror for a Hero (1988)
"Zerkalo dlya geroya" (original title)

Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native miners town and found themselvesin 1949... See full synopsis »

Director:

Vladimir Khotinenko

Writers:

Nadezhda Kozhushanaya, S. Rybas (book)

Stars:

Sergey Koltakov, Ivan Bortnik, Boris Galkin

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Sergey Koltakov
Ivan Bortnik
Boris Galkin
Natalya Akimova
Feliks Stepun
Yakov Stepanov
Viktor Smirnov
Nikolay Stotskiy
Sergei Parshin
Valentin Aronyan
Aleksandr Peskov
Yelena Kozlitina
Denis Tsys
Mikhail Chernobrovkin
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
G. Koreneva

Storyline

Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native miners town and found themselvesin 1949... See full synopsis »

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Plot Keywords:

deja vu | time loop | arrest | robbery | time travel | 

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Genres:

Fantasy | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Release Date:

16 April 1988 (Soviet Union)

Also Known As:

Lustro dla bohatera

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sverdlovskaya Kinostudiya

Technical Specs

Runtime:

139 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Did You Know?

Connections

Features Vstrecha na Elbe (1949)

User Reviews

Right film

Great movie. It is a film about ours frequently unfair relation to the parents, caused by the different reasons. Among which the various outlooks on life caused by change of epoch, problem of fathers and children. It seems to me, that the main message of a film - to be a grateful to the parents. Under any circumstances as it is written in precepts. Precisely also characters of people from miner's settlement on Donbass are brightly represented, details of their life and atmosphere are transferred. A window platband in a final fragment of a film is such as in the house of my grandmother, in one of the same miner's settlements nearby Donetsk. Impresses realism of scenes in coal mine. Huge gratitude to Vladimir Hotinenko, Nadezhda Kozhushanaya, Sergey Koltakov, Ivan Bortnik, Natal'ya Akimova, other excellent actors and cinematographers for a masterpiece. Final execution of Orthodox's "Nyne otpuschaeshi" is magnificent. The film has awards: The winner of a special prize of jury of the All-Union film festival in Baku (1988, for a film «the Mirror for the hero»). The winner of a prize of name Vittorio de Sica «For direction» on a film festival in Sorrento (1988). Please excuse for mistakes in English language.