Flower on the Stone
{{Infobox film
| name = Flower on the Stone
| image = Flower on the Stone.jpg
| caption =
| director = Anatoly Slesarenko
Sergei Parajanov
| producer =
| writer = Vadim Sobko
| narrator =
| starring = Inna Burduchenko
Boris Dmokhovsky
| music = Ihor Shamo
| cinematography = Aleksei Prokolenko
| editing =M. Ponomarenko
| distributor =
| studio = Dovzhenko Film Studios
| released = {{Film date|1962}}
| runtime = 76 minutes
| country = Soviet Union
| language = Russian
| budget =
}}
Flower on the Stone ({{langx|ru|Цветок на камне|Tsvetok na kamne}}) is a Soviet 1962 drama film directed by Anatoly Slesarenko and Sergei Parajanov.{{Cite web|url=https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_cinema/20460/%D0%A6%D0%92%D0%95%D0%A2%D0%9E%D0%9A_%D0%9D%D0%90_%D0%9A%D0%90%D0%9C%D0%9D%D0%95|work=dic.academic.ru|title=Энциклопедия кино — Цветок на камне}}
The film premiere took place on 1 September 1962 in Kyiv. The regular cinema screenings began on January 24, 1963. The film had a total of 5.2 million viewers.{{cite book | author=James Steffen | title=The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov |publisher=University of Wisconsin Pres | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-299-29653-7 |pages=42, 50, 51, 54, 256}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/cvetok-na-kamne-1962-42357/|work=Kinopoisk|title=Цветок на камне}}
Plot
In place of the Donetsk steppe, overgrown with chamomile and feather grass, a mining town is being developed. Brigadier of the youth mine Grigory Griva is in love with comrade Lyuda and therefore often openly sneers at her organizational skills. But when he is alone with her, he becomes timid and shy, for which he is angry with himself and makes up new pranks.
The second story is connected with the appearance of Christina in the mining town, a beautiful but closed-minded girl who falls under the influence of the presbyter of the sect. Komsomol member Arsen who has fallen in love with the girl helps her leave the sect.
Cast
- Grigory Karpov – Grigory Griva, sinker
- Lyudmila Cherepanova – Lyuda, the Komsomol of the mine
- Inna Burduchenko – Christina, sectarian
- Boris Dmokhovsky – Pavel Fedorovich Varchenko, the head of the mine
- Georgy Epifantsev – Arsen Zagorny
- Mikhail Nazvanov – Zabroda, the librarian
- Dmitry Franko – Pasha Chmykh
- Vladimir Belokurov – father of Christina
- Alexander Gai – father of Lyuda
- Anatoly Soloviev – Peter the Great
- Boryslav Brondukov – Kovalyov
Production
Because of lack of safety on the set actress Inna Burduchenko died in hospital after suffering third degree burns while filming a scene in a burning barracks.{{cite web|title=Інна Бурдученко - актриса з трагічною долею|url=http://www.gorod.cn.ua/news_8672.html|website=gorod.cn.ua|access-date=12 July 2017|language=ru|date=31 March 2009|archive-date=17 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817035150/http://www.gorod.cn.ua/news_8672.html|url-status=live}} She initially became famous for playing the main role in the religious drama Ivanna. The director of the film Anatoly Slesarenko was prosecuted for this and convicted. Sergei Parajanov completed the work on the film and gave it a new title (the original one was Thus Nobody Loved).{{Cite web|url=https://rg.ru/2014/12/17/na-pike-site.html|work=Rossiyskaya Gazeta|title=6 популярных актеров, жизнь которых оборвалась на пике популярности |author=Veronika Nikitina|date=17 December 2014 }}{{cite web|url=http://bulvar.com.ua/gazeta/archive/s52_66477/8434.html|work=Bulvar Gordona|title=35 лет назад, 28 декабря, ушёл из жизни антигерой, чья смелость восхищала многих диссидентов|author=Lyubov Hazan}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|tt0056619}}
Category:Dovzhenko Film Studios films
Category:Russian-language drama films
Category:Films directed by Sergei Parajanov
Category:Soviet black-and-white films
Category:1960s Russian-language films
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