We, Two of Men

We, Two of Men (Мы, двое мужчин) is a Soviet feature film of 1962 directed by Yuriy Lysenko. The script was written by Anatoly Kuznetsov on basis of his story Yurka from the Pantless Team.

The film was released, but after Kuznetsov's emigration in 1969, it was banned and not shown for a long time.

Plot
In the Ukrainian hinterland, the GAZ-51 lorry driver Mishka Gorlov, who is sent to the city to get a transformer, is approached by a teacher who asks to take her son Yurka to the city to buy him a school suit. The rude and scandalous driver reluctantly agrees. On the journey full of unexpected situations and adventures, Mishka with a difficult character and the small but independent Yurka quickly find a common language, largely due to the fact that both of them grew up without fathers. And Gorlov begins to rethink his unlucky bachelor life...

Principal actors

 * Vasily Shukshin - Mishka Gorlov, lorry driver
 * Valeriy Korol - Yurka, the teacher's son
 * Vladimir Dalsky - clothes seller
 * Dzhemma Osmolovskaya - pregnant woman
 * Vera Predayevich - teacher, Yurka's mother
 * Boris Saburov - collective farm chairman
 * Valentin Grudinin - Mishka's drinking buddy
 * Maria Kapnist - passenger with a goose

Crew

 * Script writer: Anatoly Kuznetsov
 * Director: Yuriy Lysenko
 * Cameraman: Sergei Lisetsky
 * Art director: Nikolai Reznik
 * Composer: Evgeny Zubtsov
 * The orchestra of the Kyiv Conservatory named after P. I. Tchaikovsky
 * Conductor Veniamin Tolba

Production
The shooting took place in regions of Ukraine and in Kyiv.

According to Anatoly Kuznetsov, who really liked the film, We, Two of Men along with the propaganda film Meet Baluyev! were selected for presentation at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1963, but at the last moment the film We, Two of Men was replaced with another one, A Trip Without a Load, without announcing the reason.