Tuning Fork is a 1979 Soviet two-part television feature film. The film uses drawings by Nadya Rusheva. Alexander Gradsky appears in the film as himself. The song from the film 'Baby', performed by Gradsky, became popular for playing in the yards with a guitar.[1]

Tuning Fork
Directed byWillen Novak
Written byLeonid Braslavsky
StarringAndrey Evgenievih Tashkov
Music byAlexander Gradsky
CountryUSSR
LanguageRussian

Plot edit

The characters in the film are ninth-grade students. The film tells about the problems of raising teenagers in the family and in school; assessment by teachers of students as individuals; rivalry in the class for leadership; purity and morality of people.[2] The film also touches on the complexity of growing up and first love.[1]

Cast edit

  • Elena Shanina  - Claudia Sergeevna, class teacher
  • Boris Saburov  - Grigory Sidorovich, teacher
  • Andrey Tashkov  - Lyosha Kuzmin
  • Irina Korytnikova  - Tanya Sevastyanova, headman
  • Vasily Funtikov  - Sasha Ganushkin
  • Anna Nadtochiy  - Vera Mikhailova (voiced by Natalya Rychagova )
  • Artur Sirotinsky  - Petya Yankovsky
  • Polina Kachura - Lara Belykh
  • Evgeny Ivanychev  as Fedor Petrovich, Lara's father
  • Sergei Sazontiev  - Yuri Vasilyevich Reshetnikov, director of the film studio
  • Luciena Ovchinnikova  as Maria Fedorovna, Galushkin's mother
  • G. Potykalov - Kolya Kuskov
  • Alexander Gradsky  - cameo[1]

Awards edit

X-th film festival 'Youth' (1979) - Prize of the magazine 'News of the cinema screens' went to the actor A. Tashkov.[3]

Other sources edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Ушел из жизни певец и композитор Александр Градский. Новости. Первый канал (in Russian), retrieved 2022-01-28
  2. ^ Камертон (1979) драма, retrieved 2022-01-28
  3. ^ Masterstvo v filʹme: sbornik stateĭ ob ukrainskom kino v 1976-1980 gg (in Russian). Mystet︠s︡tvo. 1982.