The Chairman (1964)

Original title

Председатель

Directed by

Aleksei Saltykov

Genre

drama film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

2h 46m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After World War II a soldier returns to his village to rebuild a destroyed collective farm. He becomes chairman and takes on the heavy responsibility for the farm and the people around him.

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What happens

The Chairman (Russian: Председатель, romanized: Predsedatel) is a 1964 Soviet drama film directed by Aleksei Saltykov and starring Mikhail Ulyanov, Nonna Mordyukova and Ivan Lapikov. This film was honored with a Second Prize at All-Union Film Festival in Kiev (1966). After World War II ends, soldier Yegor Trubnikov comes back to his native village to restore the ruined collective farm facilities. Rebuilding the kolkhoz is as hard for him as fighting the war. Becoming chairman, he charges himself with the burden of responsibility not only for the collective farm business, but also for the destiny of the people who are so close to him. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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