Spring On Zarechnaya Street 1956 RU SUB ENG, ITA 1080p BluRay x264

Year: 1956
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Marlen Khutsiev, Feliks Mironer
Cast: Nina Ivanova, Nikolay Rybnikov, Vladimir Gulyaev, Valentina Pugachyova
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Language : Russian
Subtitles : English, Italian





The period of social and cultural liberalisation that followed the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, which proved so vital in the evolution of Soviet cinema, is known as the “Thaw”. An ambiguous and attenuated phenomenon, marked by a shift towards consumer comforts and social welfare within the USSR and foreign interventions in Berlin, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, the Thaw also represented perhaps the last great
blossoming of mainstream Soviet culture. Critical works of literature, such as Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) were published; exhibitions of international modern art were held; new journals emerged championing new voices; foreign literature and film became available. Perhaps nowhere was this paradigm shift felt as strongly as in the Soviet film industry. Revitalised by the replacement of old guard establishment figures in positions of authority, the institutionalisation of the film school system, and by contact with the likes of Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave, Soviet cinema exploded in the late ‘50s. Production ramped up, strict mandates were loosened, and by the 1960s Soviet Russia had one of the highest cinema attendance rates per capita in the world.

Marlen Khutsiev’s Spring on Zarechnaya Street, co-directed with Feliks Mironer at the Odesa Studio in 1956, is a landmark film from the heady early days of Thaw cinema. Predating the more internationally-acclaimed
likes of Mikhail Kalatozov’s Palme d’Or-winning The Cranes are Flying (1957) or Grigorii Chukhrai’s Ballad of a Soldier (1959), Khutsiev and Mironer’s provincial romance captures the quintessence of this transitional period. In the few years since Stalin’s death, Soviet critics and artists had reckoned with the legacy of Stalinist culture, particularly the demands of the state-mandated style known as Socialist Realism. Films of the 1930s and 1940s had increasingly been dominated by stock characters and narratives that lauded self-sacrifice before the collective, played out against utopian visions of the country that bore little relation to real life. In a hugely influential 1953 essay, the critic Vladimir Pomerantsev derided this as the “lacquering of reality”. What Soviet culture needed in its place, he said, was sincerity – to depict real people, engaging with real problems. This was pointedly not a rejection of the system, but a kind of revolutionary romanticism aimed at revitalising Soviet culture.

Khutsiev had graduated from the Moscow Film School in 1952, before being sent to learn his trade at the Odesa Studio in Ukraine – a common career path for untested directors. Studio head Aleksandr Gorsky teamed
him with fellow debutant Mironer for his feature debut, shot on location in Zaporizhzhya and Odesa. Spring on Zarechnaya Street saw the screen debuts of a number of prominent Soviet actors, notably Yuri Belov (later to star in another Thaw classic, Eldar Ryazanov’s Carnival Night) and Nikolai Rybnikov; the lead role of Tatyana Sergeevna was played by the non-professional Nina Ivanovna.

The film was thus imbued with the kind of youthful energy befitting of the time (it was one of several films released that year with “Spring” in the title). Khutsiev’s combination of gentle naivety – there is no real challenge to the system, factory labour is still a heroic undertaking, workers take merrily to their mandated evening classes in Russian literature – with a pointed narrative ambiguity and focus on the inner lives of carefully painted individuals is pure Thaw sensibility. The director’s warm humanism was perfectly in keeping with the times, as shown again two years later with his sophomore effort The Two Fyodors. When that later film was attacked by conservative critics, the writer Viktor Nekrasov famously defended it on the grounds that “It has the most important thing: the truth of human relationships. I forgive it, because it is a film about people – a film with errors but without the most terrible thing, lies.” The same description could be applied unedited to Zarechnaya Street.

Khutsiev and Mironer make the metaphor of a society rebuilding itself into a concrete vision of a town under construction, populated by characters who are in the process of self-actualisation. Describing the impact of the film on release (it was a hit, seen by around 30 million viewers in the year of release), Miron Chernenko wrote: “what initially struck critics and audiences [was] the sight of a run-down industrial town, still somehow pre-war-looking, on the cusp of the ‘50s real-estate ‘revolution,’ dotted with squalid hovels, fences, embankments and sidewalks, dirty buses and beer stands, populated by passers-by who dress poorly and monochromatically... the coastline of the social continent discovered by Khutsiev.” It was a continent that the director would map out in ever sharper detail in his classics of the 1960s, I Am Twenty (1965) and July Rain (1967). But by then, the Thaw had been and gone, replaced by a creeping cultural conservatism, and the optimism of Spring on Zarechnaya Street no longer cohered.

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