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Three Days in August | |
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Directed by | Jan Jung |
Written by | |
Produced by | Just Betzer |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Sergey Filippov |
Edited by | Rodney Holland |
Music by | Pete Repete |
Production company | MGM |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
Countries | Russia United States |
Language | Russian |
Three Days in August (Russian: Три августовских дня) is a co-production film between Russia and the United States directed by Jan Jung in 1992. The film is a drama that describes the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt through the story of lovers. [1]
A Russian Mikhail ( Anton Yakovlev) and a Lithuanian Dalia ( Dariya Majorova) came to Moscow to get married. The next day, the historic coup broke out. Mikhail must fight for the victory of democracy with Dalia. However, his father ( Oleg Vidov) is the army general who belongs to the conservative side, against the reformist Gorbachev. And the army general is a man steeped in the Soviet colors. He is against his son's marriage to a Lithuanian and also against glasnost.