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1962
1h 34m

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In preparation for the New Year, none of the characters imagined what dramatic events would fall upon them, how difficult and unexpectedly the destinies of the three families would intertwin... Read allIn preparation for the New Year, none of the characters imagined what dramatic events would fall upon them, how difficult and unexpectedly the destinies of the three families would intertwine.In preparation for the New Year, none of the characters imagined what dramatic events would fall upon them, how difficult and unexpectedly the destinies of the three families would intertwine.

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Yelena Fadeyeva

Dorofeya Kupriyanova
(as Ye. Fadeyeva)

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Gennadi Kupriyanov
(as I. Smoktunovskiy)

Vasili Makarov

Leonid Kupriyanov
(as V. Makarov)

Yelena Soldatova

Yulka Kupriyanova
(as Ye. Orlova)

Viktoriya Yermolyeva

Zinaida Lyubimova
(as V. Yermolyeva)

Mikhail Logvinov

Sasha Lyubimov
(as M. Logvinov)

Valentin Nikulin

Andrey
(as V. Nikulin)

Pavel Shalnov

Voynarovskiy
(as P. Shalnov)

Yevgeniy Agurov

Bortashevich
(as Ye. Agurov)

Emma Tsesarskaya

Nadezhda Bortashevich
(as E. Tsesarskaya)

Marianna Vertinskaya

Katya Bortashevich
(as M. Vertinskaya)

Vladimir Paperniy

Seryozha Bortashevich
(as V. Paperny)

Nikolay Zakiyev

Tsytsarkin
(as N. Zakiyev)

Lev Durov

Malyutka
(as L. Durov)

Nikolay Malyugin

Izumrudov
(as N. Malyugin)

Dmitriy Orlovskiy

Fedorchuk
(as D. Orlovskiy)

Alla Budnitskaya

Larisa
(as A. Mikhaylova)

Aleksandra Denisova

Aunt Polya
(as A. Denisova)

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Thaw as Camp

Leap Year (1962) is a curious assemblage of visual tropes and clichés from Italian neorealism, refracted through the lens of Soviet Thaw-era filmmaking. While it was clearly not designed for international distribution, the film nonetheless rides the lingering wave of The Cranes Are Flying (1957)-leaning heavily on bold expressive photography and striking lighting choices. Only here, everything feels not exactly bold but, to borrow (anachronistically) from Susan Sontag, "'bold'": a self-conscious imitation of intensity rather than the real thing.

Sontag's essay On Camp appeared in the West only a couple of years after this film's release, and obviously there's no direct line of influence. But one can imagine her weariness with the standardized "neorealist/new wave" aesthetics of the postwar era, which films like Leap Year dutifully replicate from behind the Iron Curtain.

As a piece of cinema history, however, Leap Year has its uses. For anyone teaching Soviet film, it offers a compact anthology of visual tropes and recurring screenwriting themes, gathered neatly into a single work. It is also undeniably "off the beaten path." The one drawback is the director's compulsive reliance on Dutch angles, which-after a while-leaves the audience's head spinning just a little too much.