100 Days Before the Command (Russian: Сто дней до приказа, translit. Sto dney do prikaza) is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by Hussein Erkenov,[1] inspired by the eponymous novel written by Yuri Polyakov.[2][3]
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Directed by | Hussein Erkenov |
Written by | Vladimir Kholodov Yuri Polyakov |
Produced by | Aleksandr Zosimenko |
Starring | Vladimir Zamansky Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Oleg Vasilkov Roman Grekov Valeri Troshin Aleksandr Chislov Mikhail Solomatin |
Cinematography | Vladislav Menshikov |
Edited by | Galina Dmitriyeva Vladimir Portnov |
Production company | Gorky Film Studio |
Distributed by | Peccadillo Pictures |
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Running time | 67 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
In order to get Gorki Studios to provide funding for the film, Erkenov and writers Yuri Polyakov and Vladimir Golodov provided the studio with two fake scripts in addition to the real one. The Russian government censored the film and banned its export. It was not screened outside of the country until the Berlin International Film Festival in 1994 after Erkenov founded his own sales company.[4]
The film lays bare the cruelties inflicted on young Red Army recruits by their superiors at a training camp in Central Russia. The film has no narrative structure and rather than telling a story uses vignettes with minimal dialogue to expose the conditions in which Soviet army recruits lived. The film explores themes of homoeroticism.[5][6]
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