Nine Days in One Year

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Singleton</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="549" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="545"><div> Planning our doom</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Lyolya: Tatyana Lavrova</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> Ilya: Innokenty Smoktunovsky</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="269"><div> Director: Mikhail Romm</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="19" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="304" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>30 Second Bottom Line</B>: Russian nuclear scientists question the purpose of their experiments and how those tests affect the world and their lives.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B> A handsome nuclear physicist named Ilya lives in a comfortably large home that looks as if it's set in suburban Connecticut. He is married to an attractive woman, Lyolya, who is also a scientist. </div> <bR> <div> At a facility in the Russian countryside, reminiscent of Chernobyl, a group of scientists is exposed to a small accident. Small to the outside world but fatal to one member of the team and Ilya suffers a dose of approximately 200 roentgens, which will not kill you but the effect of the rays remains in your body. If you are ever exposed to more roentgens, it will be fatal. Not maybe, but for sure.</div> <bR> <div> The question is not <I>if</I> Ilya will be exposed to more radiation but <I>when,</I> how much and what, if anything, will be done about it? As the answers to these questions unfold, we see a very different Russia. It's terrain and buildings look quite Western. The professional and social life of the scientists has a substantial <I>non-</I>communist sensibility, with state of the art laboratories, airports and fancy restaurants.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>: Although the film is in black and white and is set in a small town during the early 1960's, far from Moscow, it has the feeling of being very modern and relevant to today.  </div> <div> The nine days of the year referred to in the title, are not consecutive days. Rather, they are key days, over the course of a year, that change people's lives. When one sees this film in America, we can understand why it was so popular in Russia with over 24 million tickets sold at the box office. For a peek inside the former USSR that you've likely not seen before, be sure to enjoy this 35-mm print produced in 1961. It's in Russian with English Subtitles and is 110 minutes.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Not Rated (vivid sex; nudity; drugs; violence; salty language)</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> George O. Singleton © 2001</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <A HREF="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com"><U><U>George@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>