I Am Twenty

I Am Twenty (1965)

Мне двадцать лет

Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.

Date of release
1965-01-18
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (59)
Runtime
2h 45m
Genres
Drama
Director
Marlen Khutsiyev

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival

I Am Twenty is a 1965 Soviet drama film directed by Marlen Khutsiev. It is Khutsiev's most famous film and considered a landmark of 1960s Soviet cinema.

Production and censorship

I Am Twenty began production in 1959, during the de-Stalinization period of the Khrushchev thaw, when Soviet society experienced several years of unprecedented freedom of speech.

By the time the film was finished, the thaw was waning and the film's openly critical view of Stalinism was deemed unacceptable, as was its portrayal of the lives of everyday Soviet youth worrying about money and jobs and listening to Western music.

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