Spring flow

1940 Family 75 minutes Directed by Vladimir Yurenev

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About Spring flow

After graduation Nadia Kulagina goes back to teach at the school she attended. Dimka Lopatin, the pupil the staff wanted to expel, is the hopeless case in her class. Once she is there he becomes one of the better students and sticks close to the new teacher.

Cast & crew

More about Spring flow

Vladimir Yurenev directed the 1940 Soyuzdetfilm drama. Valentina Serova leads the cast, with Mikhail Astangov, Sergey Dneprov, Pyotr Savin, and Aleksandr Zrazhevsky also billed. Mark Magidson photographed it. The Russian title is Vesenniy potok.

Themes

  • A teacher returns to her old school
  • The boy they meant to expel
  • Dimka becomes her ally
  • Nadia Kulagina
  • Dimka Lopatin
  • school
  • teacher
  • Soyuzdetfilm
  • Valentina Serova

Making

Yurenev keeps the plot inside one school. The change is Dimka's, from the boy marked for expulsion to the teacher's ally.

Look

Mark Magidson photographed the school rooms and the class around Nadia and Dimka.

Preservation

A print survives.

Notes

  • The Russian title is Весенний поток.
  • Dimka is described as the pupil they had already decided to throw out.
  • The story starts when the new teacher is a former pupil of the same school.
  • Mark Magidson is the cinematographer. He also shot Lermontov, finished three years later.

Scenes

  • Nadia walks back into the school as its new teacher.
  • Dimka, written off for expulsion, starts answering in her class.