There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)

Original title

Сегодня увольнения не будет...

Directed by

Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky

Genre

drama film, thriller film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

45 min

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 47 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An army unit works to defuse unexploded bombs in a small postwar town. The soldiers race against time to prevent a disaster and save the town.

tensesuspensefulurgentgrittyrealisticlow-keyrestrainedmatter-of-fact

What happens

There Will be No Leave Today (Russian: Сегодня увольнения не будет...) is a 1959 student film by the Russian film directors Andrei Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Gordon. Based on a real postwar incident, the film is about an army unit trying to dispose unexploded bombs to save a small town. It was Tarkovsky's and Gordon's second film, produced while being students at the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). The film was aired on Soviet Central Television in 1959 and consecutive years on Victory Day. For a long time it was thought to be lost, but was rediscovered in the mid-1990s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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