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100 Days Before the Command

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100 Days Before the Command
DVD cover
Directed byHussein Erkenov
Written byVladimir Kholodov
Yuri Polyakov
Produced byAleksandr Zosimenko
StarringVladimir Zamansky
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Oleg Vasilkov
Roman Grekov
Valeri Troshin
Aleksandr Chislov
Mikhail Solomatin
CinematographyVladislav Menshikov
Edited byGalina Dmitriyeva
Vladimir Portnov
Production
company
Distributed byPeccadillo Pictures
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
Running time
67 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

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]

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 Soviet 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]

Synopsis

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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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References

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  1. ^ Menashe, Louis (2014-09-16). Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies. New Academia Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-0-9845832-2-5.
  2. ^ Поляков, Юрий (2009). Сто дней до приказа (in Russian). АСТ. ISBN 978-5-17-054344-1.
  3. ^ JPRS Report: Soviet Union. Military affairs. The Service. 1989.
  4. ^ Hansen, Eric (1994-03-14). "Sto Dney Do Prikaza". Variety. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
  5. ^ '100 Days Before the Command' DVD, Peccadillo Pictures cat no. PPDV005
  6. ^ "Sto dnei do prikaza | 100 Days Before the Command | 100 Tage, Genosse Soldat". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
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