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Content: The script about loneliness, conformity and the impossibility of creative realization scared the editorial censorship at the studio, and then at Derzhkino. A lot of claims were made against him. The demands for amendments and endless additions and rewrites by the authors lasted for about a year. The original version of the title "Na pokhony!" ("To bow down!") was replaced by "To Dream and to Live". According to Pylyp Ilyenko, the director's eldest son, this name appeared "as a result of censor pressure." Censorship stopped the tape 40 times: at the stage of the literary script, director's, during film tests (the actors were not approved), filming, etc. The film catastrophically fell apart into fragments, into masterfully filmed, but unrelated scenes. The director called the finished version a "dead film".

Countries:

Soviet Union

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

83 minutes

Year:

1975

Directors:

Yurii Illienko

Production companies:

Dovzhenko Film Studios

Actors:

Maria - actress

Konstantin Petrovich - director

Gerasim

Mary's mother

mother's friend

Crews:

Director of Photography

Screenplay

Director

Screenplay

Original Music Composer