Bridges Over Oblivion

Bridges Over Oblivion

1970 · 63 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, War

Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”

Directed by Yuri Yerzinkyan · Written by Boris Saakov

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Vitali Ovanesov Student
Lyudmila Gladunko Young Woman
Guzh Manukyan Genrikh Zakaryan
Arkadi Tolbuzin Man, who resembles the young woman's father
T. Karantonis Woman on the shore
Evgeniy Evstigneev Person, offering everybody nails
Rosalia Kolesova Tetya Sil'va The Barmaid
Lyubov Nefyodova Woman, from the distant past
Aleksandra Denisova Old lady, whom Genrikh promised to chop wood for.
Igor Nagavkin German Officer
Vladimir Basov Bandit 1
Stanislav Chekan Bandit 2

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