On the Steep Cliff

  • 50'
  • USSR
  • 1961
Setting: a village. Protagonist: a bird catcher and hunter. Scenery: idyllic. The bold, ominous score by Oleg Karavaychuk, with whom Muratova will work more often, is full of melancholy and sadness. This graduation film as yet bears no mark of the ‘dangerous’ Muratova, the 'scandal seeker' and 'anarchist'. It is the director’s prenatal period, although an important theme can already be glimpsed: the relationship between people and animals. But for now this is harmonious. Screened in combination with Letter to America.
Directors
Kira Muratova, Alexander Muratov
Country of production
USSR
Year
1961
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
50'
Medium
35mm
Original title
U krutogo yara
Language
Russian
Production Companies
Gorky Film Studio, Kiev Film Studio
Sales
Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre
Screenplay
Kira Muratova
Directors
Kira Muratova, Alexander Muratov
Country of production
USSR
Year
1961
Festival Edition
IFFR 2013
Length
50'
Medium
35mm
Original title
U krutogo yara
Language
Russian
Production Companies
Gorky Film Studio, Kiev Film Studio
Sales
Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre
Screenplay
Kira Muratova