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A Sleepless Night

1960 · 93 min

A sober, earnest Soviet workplace drama about pride, mistakes and earning trust, unfolding at a steady, patient pace.

Directed by
Isidor Annensky
Genres
Drama
Starring
Yuriy Solomin, Evgeniy Samoylov, Lyudmila Chernyshyova
Overview
Young engineer Pavel Kaurov goes to his first destination — to the port city of Sibirsk. He is appointed to lead a group of cranes: gantry and floating. After several troubles Pavel mastered the port work and received a serious assignment. Meanwhile, his fiancee Nina, an architect by profession, is arriving in Siberia. However, besides Pavel, fellow students came to the station to meet her — Petunin's brother and sister, in whose house she is staying. Soon Annushka, who has long loved Pavel, arrives. From that day on, he had trouble after trouble. After a crane accident, which happened through his fault, the hero pulls himself together and does everything to regain the confidence of the brigade...

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Directed by
Isidor Annensky
Genres
Drama
Starring
Yuriy Solomin, Evgeniy Samoylov, Lyudmila Chernyshyova
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • ambition
  • love
  • betrayal
  • redemption
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour2
Realism8
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Isidor Annensky
Written by
Vasiliy Solovyov
Starring
Yuriy Solomin, Evgeniy Samoylov, Lyudmila Chernyshyova, Dzhemma Osmolovskaya, Margarita Volodina, Aleksandr Grave, Luiza Koshukova, Gennadi Karnovich-Valua
Music
Oskar Feltsman
Cinematography
Valeriy Ginzburg
Runtime
93 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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