Shadows

About Shadows

Shadows is a 1953 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Nikolay Akimov and Nadezhda Kosheverova and starring Valentin Lebedev, Vladimir Petrov and Galina Korotkevich. On the eponymous play by Saltykov-Shchedrin.

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Shadows (Russian: Тени) is a 1953 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Nikolay Akimov and Nadezhda Kosheverova and starring Valentin Lebedev, Vladimir Petrov and Galina Korotkevich. On the eponymous play by Saltykov-Shchedrin.

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Plot

In the 1860s, from the province of St. Petersburg comes the liberal-minded young officer Bobyrev. He hopes under the protection of his schoolmate Klaverova, who became a general, to make a career. Gen. happily defines Bobyrev in his office, and already builds plans, both through the beautiful Sophia, wife Bobyrev will wage a successful struggle with opponents and influence voluptuous Minister Tarakanov.

Cast

Valentin Lebedev as Pyotr Sergeich Klaverov

Vladimir Petrov as Nikolay Dmitrich Bobyrev

Galina Korotkevich as Sofya Aleksandrovna

Vera Budreyko as Olga Dmitriyevna

Yuri Bublikov as Pavel Nikolaich Naboykin

Anatoli Abramov as Ivan Mikheich Svistikov

Aleksandr Gyultsen as Young Tarakanov

Ovsey Kagan as Savva Semyonych Obtyazhnov

Dmitry Bessonov as Kamarzhintsev

Evgeniy Gvozdev as Narukavnikov

Vladimir Taskin as Tarakanov

Aleksandr Estrin as Hairdresser

Aleksey Rozanov as Courier

Berta Vinogradova as Klara

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Notable quotes

“Shadows are like plants. They need sunlight simply to exist.”
— Thomas M. Disch, The Shadow, in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best Fantasy 2, p. 334 (Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December, 2001)
“There are no shadows in the dark. Shadows are the servants of light, the children of fire. The brightest flame casts the darkest shadows.”
— in A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin, Chapter Davos (II).
“The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.”
— Edmund Burke, speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll.
“Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.”
— John Ruskin, Painting.
“No matter how satisfying the shade is, one must step out of it. Because if you keep staying in the shade like this, even your own shadow will abandon you.”
— Sanu Sharma, Differences
“Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ.”
— And the greater shadows fall from the lofty mountains.

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