Get Thee Out
{{short description|1991 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Get Thee Out
| image = Get Thee Out Izydi.jpg
| caption = Film poster with original title
| director = Dmitry Astrakhan
| producer =
| writer = Dmitry Astrakhan
| starring = Otar Megvinetukhutsesi
| music = Alexander Pantykin
| cinematography = Yuri Vorontsov
| studio = Lenfilm
| editing = N. Viktorova
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|1991|9|11|TIFF|df=yes}}
| runtime = 83 minutes
| country = Soviet Union
| language = Russian
}}
Get Thee Out ({{langx|ru|Изыди!|Izydi!}}) is a 1991 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Dmitry Astrakhan.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/169763/Izydi/overview |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307101422/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/169763/Izydi/overview |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 March 2016 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author=Clarke Fountain |date=2016 |title=Get Thee Out |access-date=19 September 2015 }} The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 64th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Plot
The film was based on literary works of Sholom Aleichem, Aleksandr Kuprin and Isaac Babel.[http://www.jewish.ru/culture/cinema/2015/11/news994331530.php Дмитрий Астрахан: «Евреи не только молятся, иногда они дерутся»]
Motya Rabinovich, in celebration of his good fortune, is preparing a feast for the entire village. However, his mind is haunted by visions of pogroms rolling across the country. His only daughter has converted to Christianity in order to marry the son of the village elder. Alongside the troubling visions, scenes emerge of a truck, carrying pogromists under the Russian tricolor flag, ominously approaching the village to a mournful waltz.
In the final scene, Motya and his family are packing up to leave the village with all their belongings. But as they prepare to depart, Motya spots a crowd approaching the village. In a moment of desperation, he grabs an axe and rushes to meet the truck of terror. A miracle happens—he is joined by the local men, who march alongside him toward their inevitable fate.
Cast
- Otar Megvinetukhutsesi as Motya Rabinovich
- Elena Anisimova as Golda
- Tamari Skhirtladze as Sora-Broha
- Tatyana Kuznetsova as Beylka
- {{Interlanguage link multi|Valentin Bukin|ru|3=Букин, Валентин Павлович}} as Trofim
- Vladimir Kabalin as Ivan
- {{Interlanguage link multi|Aleksandr Lykov|ru|3=Лыков, Александр Анатольевич}} as Petya
- Kseniya Rappoport as Sima
- Nikolai Rybnikov as Nikifor, innkeeper
- {{ill|Viktor Petrovich Mikhailov|ru|Михайлов, Виктор Петрович (актёр)|lt=Viktor Mikhailov}} as constable
- Viktor Bychkov as Yegor
Production
Making his debut in cinema, the young theater director from Leningrad Dmitry Astrakhan, along with his permanent co-author playwright Oleg Danilov, turned to the Jewish theme, which was as popular in the late 1980s as the Stalinist theme. According to Astrakhan's recollections, he was allocated 100,000 rubles for a movie worth a million rubles at the prices of that time on Lenfilm. The remaining 900 thousand he found through a journalist Vladimir Kamyshev.
See also
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0101946|Get Thee Out}}
- [http://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/2692/annot/ Alexander Fedorov's Reviews]
- [http://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/42679/ Get Thee Out] at the KinoPoisk
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Category:1991 comedy-drama films
Category:1991 directorial debut films
Category:Soviet comedy-drama films
Category:Russian-language comedy-drama films
Category:1990s Russian-language films
Category:Adaptations of works by Aleksandr Kuprin
Category:Films directed by Dmitry Astrakhan
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