Dream
About Dream
Anna leaves a Ukrainian village for a city and a better life. Three years on she is working two jobs and living in a rooming house full of people who have already failed at the same hope. Yelena Kuzmina plays Anna. Faina Ranevskaya is among the lodgers. The house, not a love story, holds the film.
Cast & crew
More about Dream
Mikhail Romm directed and co-wrote the script with Yevgeny Gabrilovich. Boris Volchek photographed. Henryk Wars composed the score. The release date is September 13, 1943, after a production dated to 1941 on some records. It runs 100 minutes. The Russian title is Mechta. Vladimir Solovyov, Rostislav Plyatt, and Mikhail Astangov are in the cast.
Themes
Background
Shot around 1941 and released in September 1943, the film looks at a prewar western city from inside the war years.
Making
Romm builds the film as a boarding-house cross-section, with Anna's two jobs as the thread through the other tenants.
Look
Boris Volchek shot the village departure and the cramped rooms of the boarding house.
Music
Henryk Wars composed the score.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The story is set in a western city of rooming houses, with Anna's start in a Ukrainian village.
- Ranevskaya's lodger is one of the people who have stopped expecting the city to pay off.
- Wars, the Polish composer, is the music credit.
- The gap between a 1941 production date and the 1943 release sits on the wartime calendar.
- Plyatt and Astangov share the house with Kuzmina.
Scenes
- Anna leaves the village.
- Three years later she is in the rooming house with two jobs.
- The other lodgers fill the corridor with their own stalled plans.
