The Steamroller and the Violin
- Igor Fomtschenko: Sascha
- Vladimir Samanski: Sergei
- Marina Adschubei: Mother
- Natalya Archangelskaja: Girls
- Yuri Brusser
- Wjacheslaw Borisov
- Alexander Witoslawski
- Alexander Ilin
- Lyudmila Semyonova
- Zhenya Fedchenko
- M. Figner
- Gena Kljatschkowski
- Igor Korowikow
- Kolya Kasarew
- Antonina Mikhailovna Maximova
- Tatyana Prokhorova
- G. Schdanowa
The Steamroller and the Violin is the diploma film by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky
Action
The film tells the story of a boy named Sasha, whose one and only is his violin and thereby makes himself the outsider. Other children put to him, and in such a situation it is the driver of a road roller at encouraging him later on his part to help a harried young. Between the roller driver Sergei and Sasha A subtle friendship develops. After initially Sascha was allowed to go on the roller, and later Sergei gets a glimpse into the violin. Sergei is proud of the traces of hard work on his hands, Sasha is proud of the traces of playing the violin at his chin. But Sasha's parents find that a road worker is not the right way to deal from her son. So Sascha missed an appointment with Igor, who wanted to go to the movies with him. The now takes his girlfriend, who had become jealous of the boy. Sascha can experience the meeting only in the imagination: In the final scene, he goes to the red road roller.
Background
It is remarkable that already shows in this film things seemingly magically charged and open up the viewer with a wide field of association. The apples that roll off in this film, a woman who already appear in Ivan's childhood as a poetic reference. Also, the recurring motif of the mirror and the water play in Tarkovsky's diploma film has an important role and refer to later masterpieces such as The Mirror or extended water sceneries in all of his films.