"This first film by Siberian poet Yevtushenko is an autobiographical work about his evacuation as a boy of nine from wartime Moscow to Siberia. The story centers on the Dickensian adventures of a young boy, Zhenya, who is evacuated by train along with other Muscovites fleeing the German invasion of 1941. En route to his grandmother's home in Siberia, the child encounters thieves, speculators, and black marketeers and experiences love, death, and friendship. Yevtushenko's film pays homage to the Italian neo-realists and the surrealism of Cocteau. The director used nonprofessionals to tell his story including his own relatives. Yevtushenko himself appears in a small role as an eccentric chess player. (Does not circulate)."
"Yevgeny Yevtushenko's debut film is a "semi-autobiographical" work recalling the poet's evacuation at age 9 from wartime Moscow to Siberia. Drawing on a variety of movie genres, especially Italian neo-realism, Yevtushenko chronicles the myriad adventures of Zhenya who flees eastward by train after the German invasion of 1944. After the train is strafed by gunfire, the boy, with violin in hand, falls in with a band of thieves and has his instrument smashed by black marketeers. His odyssey continues among the hardy peasants of the Siberian steppes. The events are accompanied by Yevtushenko reading fragments of his poems: "Do not forget your children, my country. The war is their kindergarten." The director plays a small part as an eccentric chess player."
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