Golos (1982 film)

Infobox Film
name = Golos
director = Ilya Averbakh
writer = Natalya Ryazantseva
starring = Natalia Sayko
Leonid Filatov
Grigori Kalatosishvili
Vsevolod Shilovsky
Petr Shelokhonov
Yelena Safonova
Tatyana Lavrova
Mikhail Gluzsky
music = Vladimir Svetozarov
cinematography = Nikolai Karetnikov
editing = Olga Amosova
Aleksandra Borovskaya
distributor = - USA -
Lenfilm
- non-USA -
Lenfilm
released = 1982
runtime = 87 min.
country = flagicon|Soviet Union
language = Russian
imdb_id = 0084012

"Golos" ( _ru. Голос), (also known in English as "Voice"), is a Russian 1982 psychological drama set in Russia. Based on the screenplay of the same name by Natalya Ryazantseva and directed by Ilya Averbakh. This is the last film by director Ilya Averbakh.

Plot summary

Actress Yulia Martynova (played by Natalia Sayko) is starring in a new film, but in the middle of the film production she is suddenly hospitalized with a serious illness. Film director (played by Leonid Filatov) is emotionally involved, he becomes frustrated, but the actress comes back from her hospital bed to the studio to continue her work in post-production. Yulia cannot imagine her character speaking with a voice of another actress, so she is dealing with her condition, taking drugs to overcome her pain, in order to contribute her original voice to the film. Cast and crew members are helping the star to overcome, and her original voice brings new depth and meaning to the film, after her death.

Cast

*Natalia Sayko - as Yulia Martynova
*Leonid Filatov - as Film director
*Grigori Kalatozishvili - as Writer
*Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina - as Anna Viktorova
*Vsevolod Shilovsky - as Cameraman
*Sergei Bekhterev - as Composer
*Petr Shelokhonov - as Production director
*Vasili Bochkarev - as Arkady
*Yelena Safonova - as Sveta
*Tatyana Kravchenko - as Nadya
*Tatyana Pankova - as art director
*G. Berezovsky - as sound technician
*Tatyana Lavrova - as Akhtyrskaya
*Mikhail Gluzsky - as Pavel Platonovich
*Tatyana Rodionova - as Film editor
*Alla Osipenko - as Yulia's neighbor
*Boris Eifman
*Olga Narutskaya
*Andrei Urgant
*Nina Usatova
*Marina Yurasova

Crew

*Director: Ilya Averbakh
*Writer: Natalya Ryazantseva
*Original Music: Nikolai Karetnikov
*Cinematographer: Dmitri Dolinin
*Editing: Olga Amosova, Aleksandra Borovskaya
*Production design: Vladimir Svetozarov
*Costume design: Natalya Vasilyeva
*Set decoration: Avy Schneiderman
*Sound department: Boris Andreyev
*Second unit director:Tatiana Buzyan

Technical data

*Production dates: October 1980 to October 1982
*Color info: Color
*Running time: 87 min , original director's cut was 93 min.
*Film length: 2527 m
*Film budget: $6,500,000 (estimated)

Production

Film Golos ( _ru. ГОЛОС) was produced by the Lenfilm studios in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia, former USSR. Filming locations were in the city of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and its suburbs, as well as in Moscow. Postproduction was made at the Lenfilm studios. Production dates were from October 1980 to October 1982.

Reception

Film was released on December 18, 1982, in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), with the premiere at the "Dom Kino" (House of Film) in Leningrad. Attendance was 2,3 million viewers internationally in the first year, since the release. Film was released in East Germany on October 28, 1983, with narration and subtitles in German.

Distribution

*International distributor: Sovexportfilm, all media (non Russia).
*Russian distributor: Lenfilm, Goskino, all media.

Facts and connections

*Original director's cut was 93 minutes, currently available copies are reduced to 87 min.
*This was the first Soviet film openly dealing with drug and alcohol abuse among Soviet actors, alluding to artists struggling with the system. The title, Golos (meaniing Voice), has allusion to the voice of Vladimir Vysotsky, a dissident star actor and singer who died at age 42, in 1980. Director Ilya Averbakh knew Vysotsky, so the film Golos was made to support those with independent mind and voice.
*Director Ilya Averbakh died aged 51, three years after the film was released.
*Director Ilya Averbakh was a medical doctor, before he became a film director, so he had additional professional knowledge and understanding about stress and pressures on independent minds in the Soviet Union.
*Intellectuals and film critics in Russia argued that director Ilya Averbakh expressed his view on the state of affairs in the Soviet Union, where independent minds were not allowed to speak openly with their own voice.
*Film "Golos" was released after the death of Leonid Brezhnev when the KGB chief Yuri Andropov came to power in the Soviet Union.

External links

* (English)
* Film Golos (The Voice) cast and crew on ssees.ac.uk [http://www.ssees.ac.uk/videos/v343.htm] (English)
* Film "Die Stimme" cast and synopsis [http://www.kabeleins.de/film_dvd/filmlexikon/ergebnisse/index.php?filmnr=60288] (German)
* Film Golos ( _ru. Голос) cast, crew and synopsis on Kinoexpert.ru [http://www.kinoexpert.ru/index.asp?comm=4&num=2861] (Russian)
* Director Ilya Averbakh's bio and film Golos ( _ru. Голос) cast, crew and synopsis [http://mega.km.ru/cinema/encyclop.asp?TopicNumber=5746] (Russian)