Lullaby
About Lullaby
Fighter pilot Dmitry Losev still looks for his daughter Aurika, who was thought killed when a maternity hospital was bombed. Years have passed and he has no solid lead. He keeps searching. The lullaby sung to the girl when she was small is what lets him recognize her.
Cast & crew
More about Lullaby
Mikhail Kalik's first feature after VGIK. Avenir Zak and Isai Kuznetsov wrote the script. Vadim Derbenyov photographed the black-and-white film. David Fedov wrote the music. Russian Wikipedia times it at 95 minutes. The Russian title is Kolybelnaya.
Themes
Background
The search starts from a wartime bombing of a maternity hospital and continues years after the war.
Making
Kalik shot it in black and white at Moldova-Film, with Derbenyov on the camera, the year he left film school.
Look
Vadim Derbenyov shot the black-and-white feature.
Music
David Fedov wrote the score. The lullaby is the piece Losev uses to know his daughter.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Nikolai Timofeyev plays Losev.
- Viktoriya Lepko plays Aurika. Lidiya Pigurenko plays her as a child.
- Lyubov Rumyantseva plays another young woman also called Aurika, the daughter of an archivist.
- The picture is Kalik's debut feature, not a later Moldova-Film assignment.
Scenes
- Losev sets out after the years in which Aurika was counted among the dead.
- He knows her when he hears the lullaby from her childhood.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1959. Колыбельная.webm)