Director: Andrei Tarkovskiy
Country: Soviet Union
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The Steamroller and the Violin (Russian: Каток и скрипка, translit. Katok i skripka), is a 1960 featurette directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and from a screenplay written by Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky. The film tells the story of the unlikely friendship of Sasha (Igor Fomchenko), a little boy, and Sergey (Vladimir Zamansky), the operator of a steamroller. The film was Tarkovsky's diploma film at the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), but was made at the Mosfilm studio.
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