The Golden Gates (1971)

6.5/10 • 80 min • Documentary TV Movie

Overview

The film-remembrance of the creative fate of the Ukrainian Soviet film director Alexander Dovzhenko, shot on his diaries. It has his statements about his work, about the role of the artist in society, his plans and sources of inspiration, his artistic style and the peculiarities of his worldview. Used excerpts from his films and documentary footage taken during the director's life, as well as filmed fragments of the unfinished scripts " The Death of the Gods” and “Tsar”.

Cast

Roman Tkachuk

God / Peasant

Mykola Hrynko

Bishop

Pyotr Shcherbakov

Gordei Truba

Valentina Telichkina

Madonna

Nikolai Gubenko

Soldier Ivan

Sergey Nikonenko

Tsar

Boris Sichkin

Nesmachny

Sergei Bondarchuk

Narrator (Voice)

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