Directed by Dinara Asanova • 1983 • USSR/Russia

A former athlete leads a sports summer camp for troubled teens in this drama from Dinara Asanova. Famed for her use of improvisation, Asanova uses this chronicle of a summer to investigate the paradoxical vulnerability of these supposedly “tough” outsiders. Incisive and touching, the film dares to treat the marginalised with empathy.

TOUGH KIDS • ПАЦАНЫ
Directed by Dinara Asanova
Written by Yuri Klepikov
Cinematography by Yuri Veksler
Music by Vitali Chernitsky, Viktor Kisin
Starring: Olga Mashnaya, Andrei Zykov, Valeriy Priyomykhov

In Russian with English subtitles