Days of the Turbins (1976)

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Kyiv, winter 1918: a family of White officers and their friends face the collapse of everything they believed in.

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Year
1976
Director
Vladimir Basov
Starring
Andrei Myagkov, Valentina Titova, Oleg Basilashvili, Vladimir Basov
Genre
Drama, History, War
Running time
3 h 32 min · 3 parts
Based on
The play by Mikhail Bulgakov
Language
Russian · no official English subtitles (YouTube machine translation only)
Studio
Mosfilm

About the film

In the cosy Turbin family apartment, Colonel Alexei Turbin, his younger brother Nikolka, their sister Elena and their officer friends gather to celebrate, as power in Kyiv passes from the Hetman to Petliura and then to the Bolsheviks.

Elena's husband Talberg runs away with the Germans, Alexei must decide what to do with his men, and the whole family must choose how to live in a new, frightening world.

A faithful three-part screen version of Mikhail Bulgakov's famous play. Parts one and two also have proper English subtitles on YouTube.

Did you know?

  • Parts one and two have official English subtitles; part three does not.
  • The play was based on Bulgakov's own novel The White Guard.
  • Andrei Myagkov plays Colonel Alexei Turbin.

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