Troubled Summer (1981)

For Kolya, his mother is the most important person in life. He helps her around the house, waits for her from work in the evening, and even sculpted a sculptural portrait of her. But then the woman began to disappear somewhere more and more often, linger and smile mysteriously, without answering questions. And soon she brought a new dad into the house - Arthur. The boy immediately rebelled and decided that he would not live with someone else’s guy. He saw only one way out - to run away from home. Nikolai is almost an adult - he is 12 years old. He can do a lot of things, especially good at drawing and sculpting. The boy lives alone with his mother and cannot imagine his life any other way. Therefore, when she has a man, she begins to be jealous.
The film "Restless Summer", which was released in 1981. The film was shot at the Kyiv Film Studio named after Alexander Dovzhenko, the project was directed by Yaroslav Lanchak. The television film is based on the story “These Hot Trans-Volga Days” by Evgeny Shatko.
By the way, the young heroes were played by ordinary children, who later did not continue their acting career. However, all three - Vova Chernyuk, Ivanka Popko and Andrey Kurasov - coped with their tasks perfectly, as did their older, but more famous colleagues: Nikolai Babenko (“Birthday of the Bourgeois”), Svetlana Tormakhova (“Assa”, “Walking on torment"), Irina Tereshchenko ("Ten Little Indians"), Vladimir Volkov ("Property of the Republic", "Aty-Bati, Soldiers Came").
Creative Group:
Director: Yaroslav Lanchak;
Writers: Pavel Nebera, Viktor Politov;
Cameramen: Viktor Politov, Pavel Nebera;
Composer: Viktor Lebedev;
Artist: Vyacheslav Kaplenko.
Cast: Svetlana Tormakhova, Nikolai Babenko, Volodya Chernyuk, Ivanka Popko, Andryusha Kurasov, Irina Tereshchenko, Vladimir Volkov and others.
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