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There Will Be No Leave Today is a film of genre Drama directed by Andreï Tarkovski with Oleg Borisov
There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
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Add to a movie listThere Will be No Leave Today (Russian: Сегодня увольнения не будет...) is a 1959 student film by the Russian film directors Andrei Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Gordon. Based on a real postwar incident the film is about an army unit trying to dispose unexploded bombs to save a small town. It was Tarkovsky's and Gordon's second film, produced while being students at the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). The film was aired on Soviet Central Television in 1959 and consecutive years on Victory Day. For a long time it was thought to be lost, but was rediscovered in the mid-1990s.
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Construction workers find an old cache of bombs from World War II in an unnamed Russian town. An army unit is charged with solving this problem. The municipal committee decides that exploding the bombs would inflict too much damage on the town and so the army unit must transport the bombs manually to a safe site.Actors
Oleg Borisov
(Captain Galich)
Andreï Tarkovski
(Military engineer)
Leonid Kouravliov
(Morozov)
Stanislav Lyubshin
(Sadovnikov)
Aleksei Smirnov
(Vasili Makarovich)
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