Without Witness

Without Witness
Directed by	Nikita Mikhalkov
Written by	Sofiya Prokofyeva Nikita Mikhalkov
Starring	Irina Kupchenko
Music by	Eduard Artemyev
Cinematography	Pavel Lebeshev
Edited by	Eleonora Praksina
Release dates	July 1983 (1983-07)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Without Witness (Russian: Без свидетелей, translit. Bez svideteley) is a 1983 Soviet drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. It won the Prix FIPRESCI at the 13th Moscow International Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

The film is completely put in a chamber style - throughout the film characters do not leave the apartment. The names of the main characters is unknown.

Coming one day to his former wife, he finds out that she is going to marry his old friend, a great scientist, to whom he once wrote an anonymous letter.

Out of fear of exposure, he demands that she changed her mind. Its main asset becomes son Dima, who does not know that she was not a native, his mother. For the sake of love and tranquility son she was forced to sacrifice personal happiness.

Cast

References

↑ "13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983)". MIFF. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

External links

Without Witness at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Nikita Mikhalkov

A Girl and Things (1967)
And I Go Home (1968)
A Quiet Day During the End of War (1970)
At Home Among Strangers (1974)
A Slave of Love (1976)
An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano (1977)
Five Evenings (1978)
Oblomov (1980)
Family Relations (1981)
Without Witness (1983)
Dark Eyes (1987)
Hitch-hiking (1990)
Close to Eden (1992)
Remembering Chekhov (1993)
Anna: 6 - 18 (1993)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Russians Deprived of Russia (2003)
12 (2007)
Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010)
Burnt by the Sun 2: Citadel (2011)
Sunstroke (2014)

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