Three Encounters
About Three Encounters
The film is a set of stories about people coming home from the front. Major Kornev had been a blast-furnace engineer. Sergeant-major Nikanor Samoseev becomes a collective-farm chairman. Senior lieutenant Rudnikov leaves for an Arctic expedition, and lieutenant Bella Mukhtarova travels east with geologists. Aleksandr Ptushko, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Sergei Yutkevich directed the separate novellas.
Cast & crew
More about Three Encounters
Nikolai Pogodin, Sergei Yermolinsky, and Mikhail Bleiman wrote it, and Nikolay Kryukov composed the score. Fyodor Provorov, Igor Gelein, Arkadi Koltsaty, and Boris Aretskiy photographed it. Wikidata lists 83 minutes and the release November 17, 1949, against the catalog year 1948 kept here.
Themes
Background
Each story starts after the war, with a former soldier taking a civilian job.
Look
Fyodor Provorov, Igor Gelein, Arkadi Koltsaty, and Boris Aretskiy share the camera credit.
Music
Nikolay Kryukov is the composer on Wikidata.
Notes
- Nikolai Kryuchkov plays Maksim Kornev and Boris Chirkov plays Nikanor Samoseev.
- Tamara Makarova plays Olimpiada Samoseeva and Klara Luchko plays Bella.
- Yuliya Borisova plays Oksana.
- Four camera credits match the three-director structure.
Scenes
- Samoseev, a sergeant-major in the war, takes the chair of a collective farm.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1948. Три встречи.webm)
