The Republic of ShKID
19661h 43mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Comedy
- Family
Overview
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
Keywords
- street urchin
- russian history
- youth correctional facility
- school principal
- eccentric leader
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 29, 1966
- Original language
- Russian
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Lenfilm
- Cast
- Anatoliy Podshivalov,Artur Isayev,Aleksandr Melnikov,Vera Titova,Tamara Kolesnikova,Pavel Luspekayev,Lev Vajnshtejn,Mikhail Vasilyev,Vyacheslav Golubkov,Nikolay Kuzminand 18 more
- Director
- Gennadi Poloka
- Producer
- Iosif Shurukht
- Cinematography
- Aleksandr Chechulin,Dmitriy Dolinin
- Music
- Sergei Slonimsky
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0135625