I Am Twenty,(1965/1989),  Marlen Khutsiev


I Am Twenty is notable for its often dramatic camera movements, handheld camerawork and heavy use of location shooting, often incorporating non-actors (including a group of foreign exchange students from Ghana and the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko) and centering scenes around non-staged events (a May Day parade, a building demolition, a poetry reading). Filmmakers Andrei Tarkovsky and Andrei Konchalovsky both play small roles in the film. The dialogue often overlaps and there are stylized flourishes that echo the early French New Wave, especially François Truffaut's black and white films. The screenplay, co-written by Gennadi Shpalikov, originally called for a film running only 90 minutes, but the full version of the film runs for three hours. (wikipedia)

Waiting 

My love will come 
will fling open her arms and fold me in them, 
will understand my fears, observe my changes. 
In from the pouring dark, from the pitch night 
without stopping to bang the taxi door 
she’ll run upstairs through the decaying porch 
burning with love and love’s happiness, 
she’ll run dripping upstairs, she won’t knock, 
will take my head in her hands, 
and when she drops her overcoat on a chair, 
it will slide to the floor in a blue heap. 
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Albert C. Todd 

Music
Soviet Jazz-Funk, 1974
The Legendary Soviet Drummer Vladimir Vasilkov .
Original title - "Не болит голова у дятла" (1974)
Ne Bolit Golova u Dyatla/Woodpeckers Don't Get Headaches
Vladimir Vasilkov with the Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) musicians in the film.
Line up:
Эдуард Левкович(Eduard Levkovich)-bass
Борис Лебединский(Boris Lebedinsky)-guitar (now lives in Florida)
Ростислав Чевычелов(Rostislav Chevychelov)-flute
Владимир Васильков(Vladimir Vasilkov)-drums R.I.P. (24.07.1944-13.08.2013)


https://youtu.be/vewWf8HDKF0


I Am Twenty
Directed by Marlen Khutsiev
Produced by Victor Freilich
Written by Marlen Khutsiev
Gennady Shpalikov
Starring
Valentin Popov
Nikolai Gubenko
Stanislav Lyubshin
Guylaine Schlumberger
Gérard Hoffman
Andrei Tarkovsky
Cinematography Margarita Pilikhina
Release dates
1965 (censored version)
1989 (original version)
Running time
189 min.
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

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