A Summer to Remember

A Summer to Remember (1960)

Серёжа

Based on the Vera Panova book about a complicated relationship between an 8-year-old boy and his new stepfather.

Date of release
1960-08-12
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Family
Director
Igor Talankin, Georgiy Daneliya

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Seryozha
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Crystal Globe

Splendid Days is a 1960 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Georgiy Daneliya and Igor Talankin.

Production

The script was personally written by Igor Talankin, and Georgiy Danelia made a storyboard for him; he drew 505 frames of the future film. Before the beginning of the work, the directors agreed that everything is to be done together, each one has an opportunity to veto on any decision, but only every other day.

Initially, another actor was invited for the role of Korostelyov. However, the artistic council of the association did not approve this and recommended Sergei Bondarchuk to them. The young directors did not believe that Bondarchuk would agree to act in a directorial debut. But after reading the script, Sergei said that he liked the role.

The beginning of the shooting was scheduled for September 1959. Since the action of the picture takes place in the summer, it was decided to build the set in Krasnodar, where autumn has a large number of sunny days.

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