100 Days Before the Command
# 100 Days Before the Command

100 Days Before the Command (Russian: Сто дней до приказа, translit. Sto dney do prikaza) is a 1990 Soviet drama film directed by Hussein Erkenov, inspired by the eponymous novel written by Yuri Polyakov.

In order to get Gorki Studios to provide funding for the film, Erkenov and writers Yuri Polyakov and Vladimir Golodov provided the studio with two fake scripts in addition to the real one. The Soviet government censored the film and banned its export. It was not screened outside of the country until the Berlin International Film Festival in 1994 after Erkenov founded his own sales company.

## Synopsis

The film lays bare the cruelties inflicted on young Red Army recruits by their superiors at a training camp in Central Russia. The film has no narrative structure and rather than telling a story uses vignettes with minimal dialogue to expose the conditions in which Soviet army recruits lived. The film explores themes of homoeroticism.

## Cast

* Vladimir Zamansky as The Unknown Man
* Armen Dzhigarkhanyan as Brigade Commander
* Oleg Vasilkov as Elin
* Roman Grekov as Zub
* Valeriy Troshin as Kudrin
* Aleksandr Chislov as Zyrin
* Mikhail Solomatin as Belikov
* Sergey Romantsov as Titarenko
* Sergey Bystritsky as Senior Lieutenant
* Elena Kondulainen as Death
* Oleg Khusainov as Angel
* Sergey Semyonov as Captain
* Maria Politseymako as woman in the field
* Vadim Piyankov as lance-corporal
