Welcome, or No Trespassing

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Welcome, or No Trespassing
Directed by Elem Klimov
Written by Semyon Lungin
Ilya Nusinov
Starring Evgeni Evstigneev
Arina Aleinikova
Ilya Rutberg
Lidiya Smirnova
Aleksei Smirnov
Nina Shatskaya
Viktor Kosykh
Music by Mikael Tariverdiev
Igor Yakushenko
Distributed by Mosfilm
Release date(s) 1964
Running time 74 min.
Language Russian
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Welcome, or No Trespassing (Russian: «Добро пожаловать, или Посторонним вход воспрещён») is a Soviet movie by Elem Klimov made in 1964. It is a satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp, imposed by their masters. Most of actors are children, while the main protagonist is the director Dynin, played by Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, who eats melon several times ("dynya" in Russian).

[edit] Plot

In the Young Pioneer camp the director is afraid of harmful accidents with children and his subsequent responsibility for them. Accidents in his view appear, when formal rules are violated. Hence, he believes, that all should be done according to formal instructions and regulations. One boy named Kostya Inochkin (Viktor Kosykh) trespasses the rules, swimming to island. He is expelled from camp, but fearing to bring sorrow to his grandmother, returns to camp illegally. Soon other kids start helping him to stay, being more smart than adults. Adults are added to the plot later and also oppose to director's formalism. Finally the director is removed and expelled to town. Final scene contains happiness of freedom without Dynin's restrictions, kids and adults swim and even unrealistically jump over the river. Film also makes jokes about popular in Nikita Khrushchev's time "corn - queen of fields".

[edit] History

In the middle of the making, there was a cable to stop filming,[citation needed] but it was still finished. The movie released to screen soon after dismissal of Nikita Khrushchev as a party leader. According to some sources this allowed the film to be screened. Others say that the leader himself allowed the movie. 13.4 million viewers saw it in the USSR, movie had a good critical acclaim. In UK the movie had title No Holiday for Inochkin.

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Films directed by Elem Klimov
Feature films: Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) • Adventures of a Dentist (1965) • Sport, Sport, Sport (1970) • And Still I Believe... (1976) • Agony (1981) • Farewell to Matyora (1983) • Come and See (1985)
Shorts: Attention: Vulgarity! (1959) • The Groom (1960) • Look, the Sky! (1962) • Larisa (1980)
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