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MY DEAR MAN
1958, 108 min., color.
Melodrama.
Director: Iosif Heifitz, screenplay: Yuri German, Iosif Heifitz, camera: Mikhail Magid, Lev Sokolsky,
production designers: Bella Manevich, Isaak
Kaplan, music: Venedict Pushkov, sound: Arnold Shargorodsky.
Cast: Alexey Batalov, Inna Makarova, Leonid Bykov, Boris Chirkov, Ivan Pereverzev, Yuri Medvedev, Bella Vinogradova, Lydia Shtykan.
The screenplay became the basis for the novel “The
Cause You Serve” by Yuri German. The main character, Vladimir Ustimenko, is a doctor. Life has not been kind to him. His father perished in Spain in the 1930-s. Invariably, no matter where his destiny took him, Vladimir stuck to the ideals and principles he developed back in his youth: as a student of the medical institute, in the capacity of army surgeon during the war, and in the post-war years when he became Head Physician in charge of a municipal hospital. Justice and selflessness have always been parts of Ustimenko’s approach both to the cause he serves and the people he meets at different stages of his life.
This includes his girlfriend Varya, their friendship
going back to well before the war and supporting both
of them throughout their long lives.
2nd Prize for the film and 2nd Prize for the director at
the 2nd All-Union Film Festival (1959).
Komsomol Award to A. Batalov “For his creation of
images of a Soviet man” in various films (1967).
2nd place in the annual Film of the Year contest by
the magazine “Soviet Screen” (1959).
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Lenfilm gold classics