Bridges Over Oblivion

Bridges Over Oblivion (1970) is a drama, war film directed by Yuri Yerzinkyan rated 7.0/10.

Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”

Cast

Vitali Ovanesov

Student

Lyudmila Gladunko

Young Woman

Guzh Manukyan

Genrikh Zakaryan

Arkadi Tolbuzin

Man, who resembles the young woman's father

T. Karantonis

Woman on the shore

Evgeniy Evstigneev

Person, offering everybody nails

Rosalia Kolesova

Tetya Sil'va The Barmaid

Lyubov Nefyodova

Woman, from the distant past

Aleksandra Denisova

Old lady, whom Genrikh promised to chop wood for.

Igor Nagavkin

German Officer

Vladimir Basov

Bandit 1

Stanislav Chekan

Bandit 2