Celebration (Праздник) 23 years old

To mark the 60 years since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The film is set in a small village in western Russia. It is a story about two days from the life of an ordinary family: a father, a mother and their five-year-old daughter. That’s what Garik Sukachyov says about his film: “On June 22, 1941, a family is celebrating the daughter’s birthday. It is a beautiful sunny day, full of joy and merriment. For the girl, it is filled with important events and adventure – her birthday is celebrated by the whole village, not just by her family. And no one yet knows that tomorrow her father will leave for his work in a district center and come back a few hours later in a home guard uniform only to say goodbye to his family. And that at the moment of their leave-taking the Germans already will be entering the village. And that they will be shot by the river, on the same bank where only yesterday the carefree, happy family was sunbathing and having fun…”

Credits

Mikhail Efremov as

Sergey Batalov as

Kseniya Kachalina as

Aleksandr Baluev as

Nikolai Pastukhov as

Olga Blok-Mirimskaya as

Celebration Cast

Name	Character
Mikhail Efremov He was 37, now 61 years old
Sergey Batalov
Kseniya Kachalina She was 30, now 53 years old
Aleksandr Baluev He was 42, now 65 years old
Nikolai Pastukhov He was 78, 91 years old when he died
Olga Blok-Mirimskaya She was 46, now 70 years old

Celebration Crew

Name	Department
Ivan Okhlobystin as Writer. He was 35 (now 58) years old	Writing
Garik Sukachyov as Director. He was 41 (now 64) years old	Directing
Garik Sukachyov as Producer. He was 41 (now 64) years old	Production
Garik Sukachyov as Writer. He was 41 (now 64) years old	Writing
Vladimir Grammatikov as Producer. He was 59 (now 82) years old	Production

Celebration (23 years)

Release day: Friday, August 17, 2001
Runtime: 89 minutes