Do Not Shoot at White Swans

Do not Shoot at White Swans (Russian: Не стреляйте в белых лебедей, romanized: Ne strelyayte v belykh lebedey) is a 1980 Soviet drama film in two parts by the director Rodion Nakhapetov, based on the novel of the same name by Boris Vasilyev.

Do not Shoot at White Swans
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Directed byRodion Nakhapetov
Written byKirill Rapoport
Boris Vasilyev
StarringStanislav Lyubshin
Nina Ruslanova
Vladimir Zamansky
Viktor Anisimov
Vera Glagoleva
Ivars Kalnins
Music byIsaac Schwartz
CinematographyNikolay Nemolyaev
Production
company
Release date
  • 1980 (1980)
Running time
136 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Plot

Egor Polushkin (Stanislav Lyubshin) lives in a village. The villagers, including his wife, nickname him as the "Harbinger of Woes" - for all for what he undertakes, any work or business ends in disaster.

Egor is quite different from the villagers, he is practical and sensible. Polushkin is endowed with the talent of a true artist, with his own outlook on life. After a long search, Polushkin finally finds his calling - he gets a job as a gamekeeper. White swans become Yegor's only friends, of which he takes care of with utmost tenderness. But one day his luck ends: to the forest come poachers who without hesitation kill the tame swans.

Cast
gollark: That last bit does sound hilariously egotistical, but the vast majority of possible things which could be valued are basically entirely opposed to my own.
gollark: I think basically all the conveniently expressible "maximize X" things break horribly if actually taken seriously, and I also don't want people to just "have their own personal prescriptions about what is a good quality in the world", since it might severely disagree with mine.
gollark: BRB, maximizing paperclips.
gollark: This is at least... internally consistent and whatever, I think, it's just rather horrifying and not something I want to be judged by or anyone to be judged by.
gollark: Oh, and if for some reason you're an *incredibly* self-confident person who thinks all acts they do are right, you'll turn out maximally non-evil.


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