The Life of Klim Samgin (TV series) explained

Director:	Viktor Titov
Company:	Lenfilm
Based On:	Novel by Maxim Gorky
Starring:	Andrey Rudensky
Music:	Nikolai Martynov
Cinematography:	Vladimir Ilyin
Editor:	Anna Babushkina
Runtime:	960 minutes
Country:	Soviet Union
Language:	Russian

The Life of Klim Samgin (Russian: Жизнь Клима Самгина|Zhizn Klima Samgina) is a 14-part^[1] TV series by director Viktor Titov, based on the eponymous novel (1927—1936) by Maxim Gorky. The series premiered on television in March–April 1988.^[2]

Plot

The film describes the life of the Russian intellectual, reluctant revolutionary, in the background Klim Samgin grandiose panorama of Russian life from 1877 to 1917.^[3]

Cast

• Andrey Rudensky as Klim Ivanovich Samgin^[4]
• Leonid Gorelik as Klim Samgin (in childhood)
• Yelena Solovey as Vera Petrovna, mother of Klim
• Ernst Romanov as Ivan Akimovich Samgin, father of Klim
• Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Timofei Stepanovich Varavka, stepfather of Klim
• Sergey Koltakov as Dr. Konstantin Makarov, friend of Klim
• Svetlana Kryuchkova as Lyubov Somova
• Mikhail Gluzsky as Yakov Akimovich Samgin, uncle of Klim
• Natalya Gundareva as Marina Petrovna Zotova (Premirova)
• Andrei Boltnev as gendarme Colonel Popov
• Larisa Guzeeva as Elizaveta Spivak
• Yevgeniya Glushenko as Maria Ivanovna Nikonova
• Alexander Kalyagin as Ivan Mitrofanov / Yakov Kotelnikov, an agent of the secret police
• Igor Vladimirov as Andrey Sergeyevich Prozorov
• Sergei Makovetsky as Dmitri Samghin, brother of Klim
• Andrey Kharitonov as Igor Turoboev
• Victor Kostetskiy as Georgy Gapon
• Valentin Gaft as Valery Trifonov, officer-drunk
• Vladimir Soshalsky as Valentin Bezbedov
• Vsevolod Shilovsky as Zahar Petrovich Berdnikov, businessman
• Aleksei Loktev as Grigory Popov
• Irina Rozanova as Tosya
• Lyubov Sokolova as Anfimovna
• Viktor Bychkov as beekeeper
• Irina Kupchenko as lady on reception at the lawyer
• Aleksandr Galibin as Diomidov; Nicholas II of Russia
• Andrejs Žagars as Kutuzov

Awards

• Honorary Diploma Manson special 4th episode of Province. 1886 at the International Film Festival in Monte Carlo (1989).
• Professional Award Lenfilm studio in 1988 the artist Yuri Pugach (1989).^[5]

External links

• • Энциклопедия отечественного кино

Notes and References

1. https://sovkinofilm.ru/zhizn-klima-samgina Советские фильмы — смотреть онлайн бесплатно
2. https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/2251/annot/ The Life of Klim Samgin
3. http://bibliotekar.ru/encSlov/a/2.htm А был ли мальчик...
4. [Lev Anninsky|Лев Аннинский]
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=791kAAAAMAAJ&q=жизнь+клима+самгина+юрий+пугач Очерки телевизионного кино