I Wish to Speak (1976)
The mayor of a village sees her son killed in a gun accident. A successful, dedicated bureuacrat, she must reconcile her desire to build a bridge - and the new housing that will come with it - with the reality of resistance from the townspeople and her own grief.
- Released
- 1976-11-29
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 145 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Gleb Panfilov
- TMDB rating
- 6.4/10 from 14 votes
Cast
- Inna Churikova as Elizaveta Uvarova
- Nikolai Gubenko as Sergei Uvarov
- Leonid Bronevoy as Пётр Васильевич Алтухов, бывший председатель горисполкома
- Vasiliy Shukshin as Фёдор, местный драматург
- Ernst Romanov as доцент Козлов
- Yury Shepelev as uncle
- Vitaliy Zhabovskiy as Yura Uvarov
- Valentina Kovel as Tatyana
- Vadim Medvedev as Vladimir Vikentievich
- Nikolai Sergeyev as Stepan Trofimovich
- Ivan Selianin as old Bolshevik
- Sergey Zhukovich as Fyodor