Movie night: Spring on Zarechnaya Street (Felix Mironer and Marlen Khutsiev, 1956)

This movie deals with the struggles of an inexperienced young teacher from the city to teach Russian literature in a night school in an industrial town to young adult students who are steelworkers by day.
This film, most of it shot in Zaporizhzhia, was one of the first post-war movies from the Odesa Film Studio. It not only showed spring in cinematography but also became a symbol of the beginning of the political thaw in the USSR. Filming of Spring on Zarechnaya Street began in 1953, the year of Stalin’s death, and was released in 1956, coinciding with the reevaluation of his cult of personality.

Spring on Zarechnaya Street (ВЕСНА НА ЗАРЕЧНОЙ УЛИЦЕ), directed by Felix Mironer and Marlen Khutsiev, 1956, Soviet Union, 96 min, in Russian with English subtitles.

Door opens at 20:00, movie starts at 20:30, free entrance.