Three Days in August (1992 film)

Three Days in August
Directed by	Jan Jung
Written by	Shelagh Delaney Aleksey Poyarkov Michael Soby
Produced by	Just Betzer
Starring	Elena Astafeva Olga Barnet Aleksandr Belyavskiy Pauls Butkevics Dmitri Dobrovolsky Dariya Majorova Galina Polskikh Raisa Ryazanova Oleg Vidov Anton Yakovlev
Cinematography	Sergey Filippov
Edited by	Rodney Holland
Music by	Pete Repete
Production company	MGM
Release date	1992 (1992)
Running time	101 minutes
Countries	Russia United States
Language	Russian

Three Days in August (Russian: Три августовских дня) is a co-production film between Russia and the United States directed by Jan Jung in 1992. The film is a drama that describes the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt through the story of lovers.

Plot

A Russian Mikhail (Anton Yakovlev) and a Lithuanian Dalia (Dariya Majorova) came to Moscow to get married. The next day, the historic coup broke out. Mikhail must fight for the victory of democracy with Dalia. However, his father (Oleg Vidov) is the army general who belongs to the conservative side, against the reformist Gorbachev. And the army general is a man steeped in the Soviet colors. He is against his son's marriage to a Lithuanian and also against glasnost.

External links

• Three Days in August at IMDb
• Three Days in August at AllMovie