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GOLOS Association

For the Russian film, see Golos The GOLOS Association is a Russian civilian organization established in 2000 to protect the electoral rights of citizens and to foster civil society. As of 2008, the organization covers 40 Russian regions...

Golos , is a 1982 psychological drama set in Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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. Based on the screenplay

Screenplay

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 of the same name by Natalya Ryazantseva and directed

Film director

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 by Ilya Averbakh

Ilya Averbakh

Ilya Aleksandrovich Averbakh was a Soviet film director. His 1972 film, Monologue, was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...

. This is the last film by director Ilya Averbakh.

Plot summary

Actress Yulia Martynova (played by Natalia Sayko) is starring in a new film, but in the middle of the film production she is suddenly hospitalized with a serious illness. Film director (played by Leonid Filatov) is emotionally involved, he becomes frustrated, but the actress comes back from her hospital bed to the studio to continue her work in post-production. Yulia cannot imagine her character speaking with a voice of another actress, so she is dealing with her condition, taking drugs to overcome her pain, in order to contribute her original voice to the film. Cast and crew members are helping the star to overcome, and her original voice brings new depth and meaning to the film, after her death.

Cast

• Natalia Sayko - as Yulia Martynova
• Leonid Filatov
  Leonid Filatov
  Leonid Alekseyevich Filatov was a Soviet and Russian actor, director, poet, pamphleteer, who shot to fame while a member of troupe at Taganka Theatre under director Yury Lyubimov...
  
   - as Film director
• Grigori Kalatozishvili - as Writer
• Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina - as Anna Viktorova
• Vsevolod Shilovsky - as Cameraman
• Sergei Bekhterev - as Composer
• Petr Shelokhonov
  Petr Shelokhonov
  Petr Illarionovich Shelokhonov, was a Russian actor and director, designated Honorable Actor of Russia .-Childhood:Petr Shelokhonov was born in 1929, in Belarus, then a part of the Soviet Union; Peter Larionovich Shelokhonov...
  
   - as Production director
• Vasili Bochkarev - as Arkady
• Yelena Safonova - as Sveta
• Tatyana Kravchenko - as Nadya
• Tatyana Pankova - as art director
• G. Berezovsky - as sound technician
• Tatyana Lavrova - as Akhtyrskaya
• Mikhail Gluzsky - as Pavel Platonovich
• Tatyana Rodionova - as Film editor
• Alla Osipenko - as Yulia's neighbor
• Boris Eifman
• Olga Narutskaya
• Andrei Urgant
• Nina Usatova
• Marina Yurasova

Crew

• Director: Ilya Averbakh
• Writer: Natalya Ryazantseva
• Original Music: Nikolai Karetnikov
• Cinematographer: Dmitri Dolinin
• Editing: Olga Amosova, Aleksandra Borovskaya
• Production design: Vladimir Svetozarov
• Costume design: Natalya Vasilyeva
• Set decoration: Avy Schneiderman
• Sound department: Boris Andreyev
• Second unit director:Tatiana Buzyan

Technical data

• Production dates: October 1980 to October 1982
• Color info: Color
• Running time: 87 min , original director's cut was 93 min.
• Film length: 2527 m
• Film budget: $6,500,000 (estimated)

Production

Film Golos was produced by the Lenfilm studios in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia, former USSR. Filming locations were in the city of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and its suburbs, as well as in Moscow. Postproduction was made at the Lenfilm studios. Production dates were from October 1980 to October 1982.

Reception

Film was released on December 18, 1982, in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), with the premiere at the "Dom Kino" (House of Film) in Leningrad. Attendance was 2,3 million viewers internationally in the first year, since the release. Film was released in East Germany on October 28, 1983, with narration and subtitles in German.

Distribution

• International distributor: Sovexportfilm, all media.
• Russian distributor: Lenfilm
  Lenfilm
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  , Goskino
  Goskino
  Goskino USSR is the abbreviated name for the USSR State Committee for Cinematography in the Soviet Union...
  
  , all media.

Facts and connections

• Original director's cut was 93 minutes, currently available copies are reduced to 87 min.
• This was the first Soviet film openly dealing with drug and alcohol abuse among Soviet actors, alluding to artists struggling with the system. The title, Golos (meaniing Voice), has allusion to the voice of Vladimir Vysotsky
  Vladimir Vysotsky
  Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Soviet singer, songwriter, poet, and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Russian culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often humorous street...
  
  , a dissident star actor and singer who died at age 42, in 1980. Director Ilya Averbakh knew Vysotsky, so the film Golos was made to support those with independent mind and voice.
• Director Ilya Averbakh died aged 51, three years after the film was released.
• Director Ilya Averbakh was a medical doctor, before he became a film director, so he had additional professional knowledge and understanding about stress and pressures on independent minds in the Soviet Union.
• Intellectuals and film critics in Russia argued that director Ilya Averbakh expressed his view on the state of affairs in the Soviet Union, where independent minds were not allowed to speak openly with their own voice.
• Film "Golos" was released after the death of Leonid Brezhnev
  Death and funeral of Leonid Brezhnev
  On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, died a 75 year-old man after suffering a heart attack following years of serious ailments. His death was officially acknowledged on 11...
  
   when the KGB chief Yuri Andropov
  Yuri Andropov
  Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was a Soviet politician and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 12 November 1982 until his death fifteen months later.-Early life:...
  
  came to power in the Soviet Union.

External links

• Film Golos (The Voice) cast and crew on ssees.ac.uk http://www.ssees.ac.uk/videos/v343.htm (English)
• Film "Die Stimme" cast and synopsis http://www.kabeleins.de/film_dvd/filmlexikon/ergebnisse/index.php?filmnr=60288 (German)
• Film Golos cast, crew and synopsis on Kinoexpert.ru http://www.kinoexpert.ru/index.asp?comm=4&num=2861 (Russian)
• Director Ilya Averbakh's bio and film Golos cast, crew and synopsis http://mega.km.ru/cinema/encyclop.asp?TopicNumber=5746 (Russian)