The Republic of ShKID (film)
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| Directed by | Gennadi Poloka |
| Written by | Grigori Belykh Leonid Panteleyev |
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Sergei Yursky Yulia Burygina Pavel Luspekayev |
| Music by | Sergei Slonimsky |
| Cinematography | Dmitri Dolinin Aleksander Chechulin |
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| Country | USSR |
| Language | Russian |
The Republic of ShKID (Russian: Республика ШКИД, translit. Respublika ShKID) is a 1966 Soviet comedy-drama directed by Gennadi Poloka. The premiere of "Republic ShKID" was held on December 29, 1966; in 1967, the film became a box-office leader - it was seen by 32.6 million viewers (12th place).
The action takes place in St. Petersburg in the early 1920s. In the country as reported in the credits, 4 million children are homeless. Juvenile offenders are caught by the Cheka and distributed across boarding schools and gated colonies.
School leaders and colonies, teachers-enthusiasts choose their pupils themselves. Prison waits for those who are not taken into rehabilitation. Vikniksor, director of the school-commune named after Dostoevsky, prepares the teaching staff and personnel in welcoming the first set of students. They set the table for breakfast but no one comes to the dining room: after having breakfast in the dormitory as usual the street children take from janitor Meftahutdyn keys to the gate and leave the school.
At the same time they throw the keys into a tree so that it is difficult to lock the gates, and the tree is eventually cut down in order to get the keys. Having reveled enough, the homeless return on the evening of the same day to school and bully the staff. Most of their ire is received by the substitute of Vikniksora – Elanlyum, the German language teacher.
Then Vikniksor dramatically changes the style of communication: in the morning, rakishly transferring pupils from hand to hand, the teachers and the staff send them first into the shower, then into the dining room, where they are dismissed from the table for a slightest disobedience ( "you will have breakfast at dinner"), and finally are seated at their desks. Palvan, teacher of literature, has his own "method of education"; fawning before the disorderly street children, he sings them songs (mainly "urban folklore") during lessons, without burdening them with studies.
Two weeks after Vikniksor loses patience and dismisses Palvan. Disgruntled students start a row – they create their own independent state of hooliganism and declare war on teachers under the slogan "Beat the Chaldeans!". Teachers accept the challenge, but in the end are forced to negotiate peacefully. The main "Chaldean" finds a common language with the pupils when he writes the hymn for their state, but to change the habits of street children is not easy.
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