I Am Twenty

I Am Twenty

165 mins | Drama | Oct. 14, 1964

Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.

I Am Twenty

165 mins | Drama | Oct. 14, 1964

I Am Twenty
Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers Gorky Film Studios
Original title Мне двадцать лет
Directors Marlen Khutsiyev
Writers Gennady Shpalikov, Marlen Khutsiyev

Cast

Valentin Popov

as Sergei Zhuravlyov

Nikolai Gubenko

as Nikolai Fokin

Stanislav Lyubshin

as Slava Kostikov

Zinaida Zinovyeva

as Olga Mikhailovna Zhuravlyova

Svetlana Starikova

as Vera Zhuravlyova

Lev Prygunov

as junior lieutenant Aleksandr Zhuravlyov

Tatyana Bogdanova

as Lyusya Kostikova

Lyudmila Selyanskaya

as conductress

Aleksandr Blinov

as Kuzmich

Lev Zolotukhin

as Anya's father

Pyotr Shcherbakov

as Chernousov

Gennady Nekrasov

as Vladimir Vasilyevich

Andrei Tarkovsky

as guest at Anya's party

Dmitri Fedorovskiy

as guest at Anya's party

Andrei Konchalovsky

as Yura, guest at Anya's party

Svetlana Svetlichnaya

as Svetlana, guest at Anya's party

Olga Gobzeva

as Vera, guest at Anya's party

Natalya Ryazantseva

as guest at Anya's party

Andrei Ladynin

as guest at Anya's party

Lidiya Rasstrigina

as Natasha

Rodion Nahapetov

as red army soldier

Andrei Voznesenskiy

as himself (uncredited)

Mikhail Svetlov

as himself (uncredited)

Rimma Kazakova

as herself (uncredited)

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

as himself (uncredited)

Bella Akhmadulina

as herself (uncredited)

Robert Rozhdestvenskiy

as himself (uncredited)

Bulat Okudzhava

as himself (uncredited)

Grigoriy Pozhenyan

as himself (uncredited)

Boris Slutskiy

as himself (uncredited)

Larisa Burkova

as Shura (uncredited)

Tamara Sovchi

as Valya (uncredited)

Yevgeniy Maksimov

as Episodic role