Complete credited cast: | |||
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Yuliy Fayt | ... | Nick Adams (as Yuli Fayt) |
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Aleksandr Gordon | ... | George |
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Valentin Vinogradov | ... | Al |
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Vadim Novikov | ... | Max |
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Yuriy Dubrovin | ... | 1st Customer |
Andrei Tarkovsky | ... | 2nd Customer | |
Vasiliy Shukshin | ... | Ole Andreson |
Two men besiege a lunch bar looking for a third man they must kill.
This film is interesting for being what it is--a Soviet cinema school's student project depicting a Hemingway short story--one of the student performers being Andrei Tarkovsky. As a film on its own right, its acting and direction are uneven. That said, I thought some of the acting was fine. The mood is a bit too subdued and less menacing than the story as I remember it. Then again, the cast were all close to 20--so that's probably is to be expected. According to most accounts, this was the first project from the Soviet film school portraying a non Russian story--and this choice, which was freshly published at the time was chosen by the young Tarkovsky himself, 4.5 stars out of 10