The Orphans (Подранки)
German title: Mit gebrochenen Schwingen
Francaise title: Les Orphelins
Spain title: Los huerfanos
Greek title: Τα ορφανά
Russian title: Подранки
Original title: Подранки
Francaise title: Les Orphelins
Spain title: Los huerfanos
Greek title: Τα ορφανά
Russian title: Подранки
Original title: Подранки
Alternative titles:
War Orphans | Wounded Game | Winged Birds | Ta orfana | Podranki
War Orphans | Wounded Game | Winged Birds | Ta orfana | Podranki
Drama – USSR
Production year: 1976
Movie length: 97 minutes
Production year: 1976
Movie length: 97 minutes
Director: Nikolai Gubenko (Николай Губенко),
Writer: Nikolai Gubenko (Николай Губенко),
Cinematograph: Aleksandr Knyazhinsky (Александр Княжинский),
Music: Aleksandr Tolkachyov (Александр Толкачев),
Writer: Nikolai Gubenko (Николай Губенко),
Cinematograph: Aleksandr Knyazhinsky (Александр Княжинский),
Music: Aleksandr Tolkachyov (Александр Толкачев),
Movie description:
A successful novelist looks back at his childhood as a war orphan while trying to reunite with his two brothers. Many years and much turmoil have pushed the siblings apart and significantly altered the way they see each other. In addition to dealing with the childhood years of the protagonist, his siblings, and his fellow »podranki« (»wounded birds«) the young boys face serious obstacles preventing them from »flying« normally into the future.The original Russian title »Podranki« can be translated as »War Orphans«. The protagonist is an adult writer who undergoes a flashback at the drop of a hat. He recalls how he was orphaned when his father was killed in World War II and his mother committed suicide. He remembers the appalling treatment afforded him by a sadistic orphanage official. And he muses over his losing contact with his brothers and sisters. This is why the grown-up writer is currently involved in lobbying for better treatment of Russian orphans. Orphans caused a minor stir in 1977 when it became the first Russian film in nearly two decades to be chosen for the Cannes Film Festival by the festival judges, rather than being submitted by the Soviets. The film did not see the light of a carbon arc in America until 1980.
This is a film primarily about children – namely Russian boys who have lost their fathers in the Great Patriotic War (i.e., World War II) – but it ends up being anything but a conventional children’s story. Nikolai Gubenko (who wrote, directed, and acted in the film) is far more interested in conveying the mood of those disheartening and depressing years in the late 1940’s (which turned out so tragically different from what most Soviet Russians had been expecting) than in connecting all of the dots in the storyline. Though stylized, it is well worth a watch.
Boy Actors
Alyosha Cherstvov
(Alyosha Bartenyev, 8 years old)
(Alyosha Bartenyev, 8 years old)
Year of birth: 1964
Age of the actor:
approximately 12 years old
Age of the actor:
approximately 12 years old
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