Mirror for a Hero
A time loop traps two men in 1949.
Mirror for a Hero is a 1987 Soviet two-part science fiction drama film directed by Vladimir Khotinenko. It is based on the short story of the same name by Stanislav Rybas.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Vladimir Khotinenko
- Writer
- Nadezhda Kozhushanaya
- Starring
- Sergey Koltakov; Ivan Bortnik
- Music
- Boris Petrov
- Cinematography
- Evgeniy Grebnev
- Studio
- Sverdlovsk Film Studio
- Runtime
- 130 minutes
- Country
- Soviet Union
Facts from the source article.
Did You Know?
- Screenwriter Nadezhda Kozhushanaya was nominated for the Nika Award for Best Screenplay in 1988.
- Director Vladimir Khotinenko received the Special Jury Prize at the All-Union Film Festival in Baku in 1988.
- Khotinenko also won the Vittorio De Sica Prize in Italy in 1989.
Plot
Metropolitan psychologist-linguist Sergei Pshenichny, played by Sergey Koltakov, quarrels with his father on ideological grounds. He later meets former mining engineer Andrei Nemchinov, played by Ivan Bortnik, who recently returned from prison, at a concert by the rock band Nautilus Pompilius. After the concert, they climb over a park fence to see a film shoot about the post-war time, but hit a cable and are transported to the late 1940s. Every morning is May 8, 1949, and they relive the same day repeatedly. Sergei meets his younger parents, his mother pregnant with him, and Andrei meets his ten-year-old self. The loop eventually breaks and they return to the present.
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