Movie night: Spring on Zarechnaya Street (Felix Mironer and Marlen Khutsiev, 1956)

- November 30th, 2025

Sunday November 30, 2025, Spring on Zarechnaya Street * Весна на Заречной улице (Felix Mironer and Marlen Khutsiev * 1956, Soviet Union, 96 min, in Russian with English subtitles * door opens at 20:00 * intro & first film starts at 20:30 * free entrance.

This movie deals with the struggles of an inexperienced young teacher from the city to teach Russian literature in a night school in an industrial town to young adult students who are steelworkers by day.
This film, most of it shot in Zaporizhzhia, was one of the first post-war movies from the Odesa Film Studio. It not only showed spring in cinematography but also became a symbol of the beginning of the political thaw in the USSR. Filming of Spring on Zarechnaya Street began in 1953, the year of Stalin’s death, and was released in 1956, coinciding with the reevaluation of his cult of personality.

Film night at Joe’s Garage, cozy cinema! Free entrance. You want to screen a movie, let us know: joe [at] lists [dot] squat [dot] net