Mirror for a Hero (1987)

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Two not quite similar men, our contemporaries, Sergey Pshenichny and Andrew Nemchinov, are walking in the street in their native mining town and found themselves in 1949. It's a common knowledge that real miracles happen without technical devices: time comes miracle happens. They spend in 1949 only one day the next morning they found that it is the same day that was yesterday. All several months, they spent in the past, they spent in one and the same day: the 8th of May, Sunday, the day of heightened coal production. In the morning to the coal mine, in an hour an accident in a coalface, at 10 o'clock wire from the Ministry, after work reunion concerning the Stalins anniversary; robbing of pay desk, death of policeman Ryabenko, in the evening - volunteer Sunday work… and in the morning the same, and so for ever and ever Philosophic fiction, accompanied by music of group Nautilus Pompillius. After a novel of S.Rybasa of the same name.

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Director

Vladimir Khotinenko

Writers

Nadezhda Kozhushanaya

Stars

Sergey Koltakov
Sergey Pshenichny

Ivan Bortnik
Andrew Nemchinov

Boris Galkin
Sergey's Father in 1940s

Natalya Akimova
Sergey's Mother in 1940s

Feliks Stepun
Sergey's Father in 1980s

Yakov Stepanov
Blind War Hero

Viktor Smirnov
Mine Director

Nikolai Stotsky

Sergei Parshin

Valentin Aronyan

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Keywords

based on novel, wife husband relationship, time travel, robbery, time loop, adultery, arrest, war hero, trapped, communism, deja vu, father son relationship, gunshot, alternate reality, mining town, repeated event

Production

Sverdlovsk Film Studio

Actor

Sergey Koltakov, Ivan Bortnik, Boris Galkin, Natalya Akimova, Feliks Stepun, Yakov Stepanov, Viktor Smirnov, Nikolai Stotsky, Sergei Parshin, Valentin Aronyan, Aleksandr Peskov, Denis Tsys, Mikhail Chernobrovkin, Yelena Kozlitina, Vyacheslav Butusov

Creators

Nadezhda Kozhushanaya (Screenplay), Vyacheslav Butusov (Vocals), Vladimir Khotinenko (Director), Elena Glebova (Assistant Director), Svyatoslav Rybas (Novel), Boris Petrov (Original Music Composer), Evgeniy Grebnev (Director of Photography), Mikhail Rozenshteyn (Production Design), Violetta Sedova (Co-Director), Sergey Karnet (Assistant Production Design), Inna Shterengarts (Assistant Director), Galina Patrikeyeva (Editor), Valentin Kozhin (Conductor), Flora Stremyakova (Editor), T. Grigoryeva (Makeup Artist), L. Kartavina (Makeup Artist), Larisa Kozlova (Makeup Artist), Galina Evseenko (Production Manager), Oleg Beldyugin (Assistant Director), M. Smelyanskaya (Assistant Director), I. Kharkivyanko (Assistant Sound Editor), Sergey Sashnin (Sound Director), G. Khlynov (Visual Effects), S. Malyshev (Visual Effects), Vladislav Vorobyov (Photo Retouching), Sergey Bogdanov (Camera Operator), Leonid Ilyukhin (Assistant Camera), V. Syomkina (Costumer), I. Orlov (Music Editor), B. Kosinsky (Script Editor)

Alternative titles

Tükör a hősnek (HU)
Lustro dla bohatera (PL)
Zwierciadlo dla bohatera (PL)
Zerkalo dlya Geroya (RU)

Release dates

05.11.2009 (RU)
13.12.1987 (SU)
16.04.1988 (SU)