Courier

Original title: Kuryer

1986
R
1h 28m

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Fyodor Dunayevsky and Anastasiya Nemolyaeva in Courier (1986)

A teenage boy goes about his life during the fall of communism in the Soviet Union.A teenage boy goes about his life during the fall of communism in the Soviet Union.A teenage boy goes about his life during the fall of communism in the Soviet Union.

Director
- Karen Shakhnazarov
Writers
- Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
- Karen Shakhnazarov
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7.8/10

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Director
- Karen Shakhnazarov
Writers
- Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
- Karen Shakhnazarov
Stars

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations total

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Fyodor Dunayevsky

Ivan Miroshnikov

Anastasiya Nemolyaeva

Katya Kuznetsova

Oleg Basilashvili

Semyon Petrovich Kuznetsov

Inna Churikova

Lidiya Alekseyevna Miroshnikova

Svetlana Kryuchkova

Zinaida Pavlovna

Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy

Stepan Afanasyevich Makarov

Vladimir Menshov

Oleg Nikolaevich

Aleftina Evdokimova

Mariya Viktorovna Kuznetsova
(as Alevtina Yevdokimova)

Yevdokiya Urusova

Agnessa Ivanovna

Vladimir Smirnov

Kolya Bazin

Andrei Vertogradov

Fyodor Ivanovich Miroshnikov
(as A. Vertogradov)

Z. Dianova

Eleonora Zubkova

Birthday Guest
(as E. Zubkova)

Nikolay Kornoukhov

Sotrudnik otdela kadrov
(as N. Kornaukhov)

Larisa Kurdyumova

Birthday Guest
(as L. Kurdyumova)

Olimpiada Kalmykova

Birthday Guest
(as O. Kalmykova)

Vera Sotnikova

Natasha
(as V. Sotnikova)

Alika Smekhova

Nina
(as A. Smekhova)

Director
- Karen Shakhnazarov
Writers
- Aleksandr Borodyanskiy
- Karen Shakhnazarov
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Trivia
Seeing from advance screenings that the film was appealing largely to teenage audiences, the original June release date was postponed since in the USSR at that time young people tended to engage in outdoor activities or leave town for travel during the summer.

Connections
Features Champion of Death (1975)

Soundtracks
Trava u doma
Music by Vladimir Migulya
Lyrics by Anatoliy Poperechnyy
Performed by Fyodor Dunayevsky and Inna Churikova

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10/10

The symbolism

The symbolism of the degeneration of the Soviet project is revealed in perhaps the film's most bizarre scene: Ivan speaks to a bust of his father in what looks like an abandoned mausoleum. And if the father-conqueror-of-spaces becomes a bust of the Secretary General, a mummy...