The Age of Innocence (1976 film)

The Age of Innocence (Несовершеннолетние, also called Minors) is a 1976 Soviet film directed by Vladimir Rogovoy and written by Edward Topol. It is not based on the novel The Age of Innocence, instead being a juvenile delinquency film set in the contemporary Soviet Union.

Plot
Russian teenager Zhenya Prokhorov returns home from military service and his friend Kostya from a corrective labor colony. They try to stay out of trouble and find a place in the world.

Cast

 * Vladimir Letenkov - Zhenya Prokhorov
 * Stanislav Zhdanko - Kostya Sila
 * Leonid Kayurov - "Gogol"
 * Pavel Nikolai - Shurik
 * Nikolay Muravyov - police major
 * Vera Vasilyeva - Polina Borisovna, teacher, Zhenya's mother
 * Yuri Medvedev - policeman Kuvaev
 * Igor Oshotin - Alka
 * Nadezhda Rumyantseva - Alka's mother
 * Yuri Kuzmenkov - Alka's father, an alcoholic

Reception
The Soviet journal Cinema Art gave The Age of Innocence a negative review.

It was the highest-grossing film in the Soviet Union for 1977, with 44.6 million tickets sold.