About the film
After the war, five-year-old Seryozha's mother remarries. The new man in the house, Korostelyov, is the director of the local collective farm, and Seryozha calls him by his surname.
Korostelyov is the only adult who treats him as a real person, and the film sees everything through the boy's eyes: neighbours, games, small injustices and the terrible possibility of being left behind when the family moves.
Gentle and true, Seryozha was the first feature by Georgiy Danelia, who would later make Mimino and Autumn Marathon.
Did you know?
- It was the first feature film by Georgiy Danelia and Igor Talankin.
- Sergei Bondarchuk and Irina Skobtseva, who play the parents, were married in real life.
- Readers of Soviet Screen magazine voted it best film of 1960.
