The Republic of ShKID (1966)
Respublika ShKID
100 min
The film is based on the eponymous book, written by two former street gangsters - Grigori Belykh and Leonid Panteleyev. Film is set in the 1920s St. Petersburg, Russia. Streets of the city are full of the homeless boys. They are caught to be raised and educated at the correction school named after Dostoevsky. The boys are street smart and difficult. But the faculty stands up to the challenge. The teaches are being devoted and caring, and gradually win the respect of the most difficult kids. The school director Vicknixor is a refined intellectual, who becomes a role model for the boys.
- Release date
- December 29, 1966
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Music
- Sergei Slonimsky
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Cast
- Sergey Yurskiy as Vicknixor
- Yuliya Burygina as Elanlyum
- Pavel Luspekayev as Kostalmed
- Aleksandr Melnikov as Alnikpop
- Anatoli Stolbov as Palvan
- Vera Titova as Marta
- Lev Vajnshtejn as Yankel
- Viktor Perevalov as Goga
- Aleksandr Kavalerov as Kostya Fedotov (segment: Mamochka)
- Vladimir Vasilyev as School Principal
- Mikhail Vasilyev as Yazykov
- Lyudmila Volynskaya as Amvon
- Liliya Gurova as Head of Reception Centre
- Nikolay Kuzmin as Makarov
- Boris Lyoskin as Policeman
- Nikolai Godovikov as Street Urchin (uncredited)
- Georgiy Kolosov as Meftakhutdyn
Crew
- Gennadi Poloka · Director
- Grigori Belykh · Writer
- Leonid Panteleev · Writer
- Sergei Slonimsky · Composer
- Aleksandr Chechulin · Cinematographer
- Dmitriy Dolinin · Cinematographer
- Aleksandr Ivanovsky · Editor