Chukhrai's "Vor"

[Irina Ustinova]

I have the original Russian version of "VOR", and what you mention about
grown up Sanya  and his meeting with Bomzh Tolyan is correct. But the movie
allows a flexible interpritation whether it was real Tolyan or fake.

Irena Ustinova



At 10:31 AM 10/24/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>Apologies if this is duplicated; my attempt yesterday did not go through.
>
>I have heard that the original issue of Chukhrai's "The Thief" has an
>additional ending, cut out for its American release.  Can anyone elaborate?
> I'm doing a talk on the film Sunday evening and would be very grateful for
>any information about the cut, since I've been unable to locate the
>original version.
>
>I'm told that there is an extra scene with the grown (48-year-old according
>to the credits, so in 1994) Sanya, who's in naval uniform and who gets off
>a train at a station and recognizes Tolyan in a decrepit BOMZh who's once
>again singing "Ekh Dorogi."  Tolyan then dies in his arms.
>
>Also, the original issue is clocked at 110 minutes, but the American
>release is only a bit over 90 min.  Surely this isn't all at the end!  Does
>anyone know of other editing?
>
>Any information would be much appreciated--by Sunday would be most useful,
>but I'd also be interested in hearing from people after that.
>
>Many thanks,
>Alex Ogden
>
>--------------------------------
>Dr. J. Alexander Ogden
>Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian
>Department of Germanic, Slavic & Oriental
>        Languages and Literatures
>University of South Carolina
>Columbia, SC 29208
>ogdenj at garnet.cla.sc.edu
>(803) 777-9615
>
>