Boy From the Outskirts
About Boy From the Outskirts
Andrei grows up on the edge of Moscow in the family of the driver Skvortsov. He wants schooling and tinkers toward the work he will later do, designing rapid-fire guns. The revolution and the war with Germany are still ahead of him. The film follows that boy from the outskirts into the years that make the designer.
Cast & crew
More about Boy From the Outskirts
Vasily Zhuravlyov directed. Iosif Prut wrote the script. Sergei Pototsky composed the score. Yevgeny Samoylov leads the cast, with Sergei Lukyanov, Tatyana Okunevskaya, and Yuri Lyubimov. Soyuzdetfilm released it in 1947. The Russian title is Malchik s okrainy. It runs 82 minutes.
Themes
Background
Released in 1947, the film looks back across the revolution and the German war from a Moscow backyard.
Making
Zhuravlyov shoots a boy's biography for the children's studio, with the gun-design career as the destination of the story.
Music
Sergei Pototsky wrote the score.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Andrei's later trade, in the film's own frame, is rapid-fire weapons.
- His father is a driver, not an engineer.
- Yuri Lyubimov, later the Taganka director, is in the cast.
- Aleksandr Zrazhevsky and Nikolai Annenkov also appear.
- The picture is a postwar film about a childhood that runs into 1941.
Scenes
- Andrei works and studies in the driver's household on the city edge.
- The story carries him from that yard toward the war years.
