Farewell (1983 film)
| Farewell (Russian: Прощание, Proshchanie) | |
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| Directed by | Larisa Shepitko Elem Klimov |
| Written by | German Klimov Larisa Shepitko Rudolf Tyurin |
| Starring | Stefaniya Stanyuta Lev Durov Aleksei Petrenko Leonid Kryuk Vadim Yakovenko Yuri Katin-Yartsev |
| Cinematography | Vladimir Chukhnov, Aleksei Rodionov, Yuri Skhirtladze, Sergei Taraskin |
| Edited by | Valeriya Belova |
| Music by | Vyacheslav Artyomov, Alfred Schnittke |
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| Distributed by | Sovexportfilm |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Farewell (Russian: Прощание, romanized: Proshchanie) is a 1983 Soviet drama film based on Valentin Rasputin's novel Farewell to Matyora and directed by Larisa Shepitko and Elem Klimov. It was Shepitko's last film. She died during filming in 1979 and her husband Elem replaced her as director.
As a remote Russian village faces submersion for a new dam project, its elderly residents grapple with leaving their ancestral home, symbolizing resilience against inevitable change.