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The Thief by Pavel Chukhraj
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Dima Chigaryov, Ekaterina Rednikova, Misha Philipchuk, Vladimir Mashkov, Yuri Belyayev Director: Pavel Chukhraj Cinematographer: Vladimir Klimov Writer: Pavel Chukhraj Editor: Marina Dobryanskaya Editor: Natalya Kucherenko Producer: Igor Bortnikov Producer: Igor Tolstunov Producer: Sergey Kozlov DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 96 minutes DVD Release Date: 1999-04-27 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Sony Pictures
Summary of The ThiefIf you were a widow with a young boy in 1952 Russia, you might take up with a handsome army captain you met on a train. You both would need protection from this post-war world in disarray. And what more solid figure than this officer whose chest proudly displays a tattoo of Stalin? Only the officer is a charismatic but often cruel and despotic thief in disguise named Tolyan (Vladimir Mashkov). And the mother Katia (Ekaterina Rednikova), in love despite herself, and the 6-year-old Sanya (Misha Philipchuk), in wide-eyed adoration and fear, are stuck with a nomadic life that demands they relocate whenever their thief-protector's safety becomes chancy. This is the story as you experience it, told in voiceover years later by the boy, a romantic tale of challenged innocence as revisited by experience. And each frame, hazy and tinted with the erosion of memory, seems permeated with the distance between these two Sanyas. That's the experiential story. But there's another one that holds up Tolyan as Stalin and the boy as the New Russia that must rid itself of the tyrant, and that story is so pat it seems dispensable. Luckily, director Pavel Chukhraj has an interesting enough visual imagination, and a keen ability to either discover or tease out engaging performances, that you can quietly shut out the easy political allegory. As played by Vladimir Mashkov, Tolyan amply translates to the audience the fascination he holds for young Sanya and his mother. In fact, all three performances hold the eye and the mind, belying any programmatic elements embodied by the allegorical plot. The Thief was a 1998 Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language film. --Jim Gay
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