Provincial pensioner Ivan
Fedorovich, war veteran, former sharpshooter of the elite Voroshilov
regiment, is determined to bring to justice the scoundrels who have raped his
granddaughter. He goes to Moscow and beats the rug going from one department
to another, without success. Having had his share of humiliation, the
desperate old man declares war on the offenders and on the state. A sniper's
gun becomes the tool of righteous vengeance.
— Catalogue, 1999 Open Russian Film Festival (Sochi), p. 8.
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Stanislav Govorukhin was born in 1936 in the Perm region
and grew up in Kazan. He studied geology in the 1950s. In 1967 he
graduated from the directing department of the All-Union State Filmmaking
Institute (VGIK). In addition to directing, he has acted in many films,
including Kira Muratova's Among the Grey Stones and Sergei Solov'ev's
Assa. He has also written scripts for his own and other directors'
films. In 1996 he was elected to the Russian State Duma, where he
chaired the Duma Committee on Culture.
Selected Filmography:
| 1979 | The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed
| | 1981 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
| | 1985 | Searching for Captain Grant
| | 1987 | Ten Piccaninnies
| | 1989 | Champagne Bubbles
| | 1990 | This Is No Way to Live
| | 1992 | The Russia We Lost
| | 1993 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn (video)
| | 1994 | The Great Criminal Revolution (video)
| | 1999 | The Voroshilov Sharphooter
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