100 Days Before the Command

1990 Soviet Union film

100 Days Before the Command
DVD cover
Directed by	Hussein Erkenov
Written by	Vladimir Kholodov Yuri Polyakov
Produced by	Aleksandr Zosimenko
Starring	Vladimir Zamansky Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Oleg Vasilkov Roman Grekov Valeri Troshin Aleksandr Chislov Mikhail Solomatin
Cinematography	Vladislav Menshikov
Edited by	Galina Dmitriyeva Vladimir Portnov
Production company	Gorky Film Studio
Distributed by	Peccadillo Pictures
Release date	1990 (1990)
Running time	67 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

100 Days Before the Command (Russian: Сто дней до приказа, translit. Sto dney do prikaza) is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by Hussein Erkenov, inspired by the eponymous novel written by Yuri Polyakov.

In order to get Gorki Studios to provide funding for the film, Erkenov and writers Yuri Polyakov and Vladimir Golodov provided the studio with two fake scripts in addition to the real one. The Soviet government censored the film and banned its export. It was not screened outside of the country until the Berlin International Film Festival in 1994 after Erkenov founded his own sales company.

Synopsis

The film lays bare the cruelties inflicted on young Red Army recruits by their superiors at a training camp in Central Russia. The film has no narrative structure and rather than telling a story uses vignettes with minimal dialogue to expose the conditions in which Soviet army recruits lived. The film explores themes of homoeroticism.

Cast

Vladimir Zamansky as The Unknown Man
Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Brigade Commander
Oleg Vasilkov as Elin
Roman Grekov as Zub
Valeriy Troshin as Kudrin
Aleksandr Chislov as Zyrin
Mikhail Solomatin as Belikov
Sergey Romantsov as Titarenko
Sergey Bystritsky as Senior Lieutenant
Elena Kondulainen as Death
Oleg Khusainov as Angel
Sergey Semyonov as Captain
Maria Politseymako as woman in the field
Vadim Piyankov as lance-corporal

References

Menashe, Louis (2014-09-16). Moscow Believes in Tears: Russians and Their Movies. New Academia Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-0-9845832-2-5.
Поляков, Юрий (2009). Сто дней до приказа (in Russian). АСТ. ISBN 978-5-17-054344-1.
JPRS Report: Soviet Union. Military affairs. The Service. 1989.
Hansen, Eric (1994-03-14). "Sto Dney Do Prikaza". Variety. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
'100 Days Before the Command' DVD, Peccadillo Pictures cat no. PPDV005
"Sto dnei do prikaza | 100 Days Before the Command | 100 Tage, Genosse Soldat". www.berlinale.de. Retrieved 2021-12-18.

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