Cinematryoshka: Rolan Bykov's Starecrow, bullying on Soviet screens

November 12, 2014, marked the 85th anniversary of the birth of actor and director Rolan Bykov. Bykov made his directorial debut in 1962, back then Bykov did not know that his name and creativity would become a symbol of children’s cinema. All his movies were for and about children (with the exception of his film adaptation of Gogol’s short story “The Nose”), and were generally good-natured tales, but his most important and renowned piece was 1983’s bitingly social and hard-hitting “Scarecrow.”
Source: Russia Beyond the Headlines - http://rbth.com/multimedia/video/2014/11/16/cinematryoshka_chuchelo_41437.html)