Movie
1961 · 19m · Drama
The boy wants to have a pigeon, but he can't afford to buy a bird. On the market for a pigeon asking for 100 rubles! Then he decides to buy a bird, bartering it for his father's album with stamps. Having caught a pigeon, the boy releases a bird into the sky. But the pigeon is returning to it's native dovecote, to it's former owner, who again demands money for it. This is a short movie about childhood and dreams, about the first life lessons that everyone has to face in childhood, when society and its laws bring changes into life, sometimes breaking the brightest dreams.
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, Yevgeni Ostashenko
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The Boy and the Dove (Russian: Мальчик и голубь) is a 1961 Soviet short film directed by Andrey Konchalovsky.
The film tells about a boy who dreams of acquiring a dove and depicting him on a wall. He can endlessly watch the birds flying in the sky. But the dove can't afford it. The guy decides to buy a dove for an album with stamps and sends a pigeon to the sky. But the dove returned to his former owner...
Nikolay Burlyaev
