Clean Ponds

Clean Ponds

76 mins | Drama | Aug. 30, 1965

A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over - and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events...

Clean Ponds

76 mins | Drama | Aug. 30, 1965

Clean Ponds
A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over - and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events...
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Чистые пруды
Directors Aleksey Sakharov
Writers Yuriy Nagibin, Bella Akhmadulina

Cast

Aleksandr Zbruev

as Sergei Rakitin

Lyudmila Gladunko

as Zhenya Rumyantseva

Tamara Syomina

as Anna Samokhina

Eduard Abalov

as officer

Nina Agapova

as Lyubov Kulchitskaya

Yelizaveta Auerbakh

as Katya's mother

Valeri Zalivin

as Tridesyatov's guest

Nikolai Kryukov

as Lev Matveyevich Rzhanov

Yuri Komarov

as Katya's fiance

Nina Menshikova

as Sergei's mother

Arkadi Trusov

as Yenyutin

Galina Frolova

as switchwoman

Viktor Khokhryakov

as Tridesyatov

Yuri Chekulayev

as doctor

Pavel Shpringfeld

as Nina's father

Zoya Vasilkova

as waitress (uncredited)

Irina Murzayeva

as switchwoman (uncredited)

Arseniy Barskiy

as host of the competition (uncredited)