The Voice (1982 film)

Plot

Cast

• Natalya Sayko as Yulia Martynova
• Leonid Filatov as Film director
• Grigori Kalatozishvili as Writer
• Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina as Anna Viktorova
• Vsevolod Shilovsky as Cameraman
• Sergei Bekhterev as Composer
• Petr Shelokhonov as Production director
• Vasili Bochkarev as Arkady
• Yelena Safonova as Sveta
• Tatyana Kravchenko as Nadya
• Tatyana Pankova as art director
• Georgy Berezovsky as sound technician
• Tatyana Lavrova as Akhtyrskaya
• Mikhail Gluzsky as Pavel Platonovich
• Tatyana Rodionova as Film editor
• Alla Osipenko as Yulia's neighbor
• Boris Eifman as cameo
• Andrei Urgant as episode
• Nina Usatova as episode

  Production

Reception

Facts and connections

• Original director's cut was 93 minutes, currently available copies are reduced to 87 min.
• This was the first Soviet film openly dealing with drug and alcohol abuse among Soviet actors, alluding to artists struggling with the system. The title, Golos, has allusion to the voice of Vladimir Vysotsky, a dissident star actor and singer who died at age 42, in 1980. Director Ilya Averbakh knew Vysotsky, so the film Golos was made to support those with independent mind and voice.
• Director Ilya Averbakh died aged 51, three years after the film was released.
• Director Ilya Averbakh was a medical doctor, before he became a film director, so he had additional professional knowledge and understanding about stress and pressures on independent minds in the Soviet Union.
• Intellectuals and film critics in Russia argued that director Ilya Averbakh expressed his view on the state of affairs in the Soviet Union, where independent minds were not allowed to speak openly with their own voice.
• Film "Golos" was released after the death of Leonid Brezhnev when the KGB chief Yuri Andropov came to power in the Soviet Union.