100 Days Before the Command

100 Days Before the Command
DVD cover
Directed by	Hussein Erkenov
Produced by	Aleksandr Zosimenko
Written by	Vladimir Kholodov Yuri Polyakov
Starring	Vladimir Zamansky Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Oleg Vasilkov Roman Grekov Valeri Troshin Aleksandr Chislov Mikhail Solomatin
Cinematography	Vladislav Menshikov
Edited by	Galina Dmitriyeva Vladimir Portnov
Production company	Gorky Film Studio
Distributed by	Peccadillo Pictures
Release dates	1990
Running time	67 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

100 Days Before the Command (Russian: Сто дней до приказа, translit. Sto dney do prikaza) is a 1990 drama film by Hussein Erkenov.

Plot

Made in the final months of the Soviet Union, the film follows three young Red Army recruits, Zyrin, Belikov and Elin. The film has no narrative structure and rather than telling a story uses vignettes to show the conditions in which Soviet army recruits lived.^[1]

Cast

• Vladimir Zamansky as The Unknown Man
• Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Brigade Commander
• Oleg Vasilkov as Elin
• Roman Grekov as Zub
• Valeriy Troshin as Kudrin
• Aleksandr Chislov as Zyrin
• Mikhail Solomatin as Belikov
• Sergey Romantsov as Titarenko
• Sergey Bystritsky as Senior Lieutenant
• Elena Kondulainen as Death
• Oleg Khusainov as Angel
• Sergey Semyonov as Captain
• Maria Politseymako as woman in the field
• Vadim Piyankov as lance-corporal

Reaction author

Yuri Polyakov said the movie is bad, but when traveling abroad begged for the movie DVD from the director. For example, to lecture at US universities.

References

1. '100 Days Before the Command' DVD, Peccadillo Pictures cat no. PPDV005

External links

• 100 Days Before the Command at the Internet Movie Database
• 100 Days Before the Command at AllMovie