A Lover's Romance

A Lover's Romance

Directed by	Andrei Konchalovsky
Written by	Yevgeny Grigoriev
Produced by	Alexandra Demidova
Starring	Yevgeny Kindinov Iya Savvina Yelena Koreneva Irina Kupchenko Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Cinematography	Levan Paatashvili
Edited by	Valentina Kulagina
Music by	Alexander Gradsky
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1974 (1974)
Running time	135 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

A Lover's Romance or Romance for Lovers (Russian: Романс о влюблённых, romanized: Romans o vlyublyonnykh) is a 1974 Soviet musical romantic drama directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.^[1]

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Plot

Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania waits for his return. Sergei's division is abandoned in favor of helping local residents in distress. During the operation, his armored personnel gets carried into the sea. His relatives receive a notice of his death. Tanya's loving childhood friend, a hockey player, helps her to cope with misfortune and she marries him.

But it turned out that Sergei did not perish. He, together with a wounded friend he saved, are found on a deserted island after a long winter. Back home, Sergei learns that Tanya has married another. Unable to accept the loss of his beloved, Sergei dies; but this death is a symbolic and emotional one, not physical. Sergei continues to live a normal life without shock and strong distress, meets another girl, marries her, has a child. In the finale there is a spiritual rebirth of the hero.

Cast

Yevgeny Kindinov as Sergei Nikitin (vocals by Alexander Gradsky)
Yelena Koreneva as Tanya (vocals by Zoya Kharabadze)
Irina Kupchenko as Lyuda (vocals by Valentina Tolkunova)
Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Trumpeter (vocals by Vladimir Siskin)
Elizaveta Solodova as Sergei's mother
Iya Savvina as Tanya's mother
Vladimir Konkin as Sergei's younger brother
Aleksandr Zbruyev as Igor Volgin
Roman Gromadsky as Ensign Ivan Solovyov
Nikolai Grinko as Vice-Admiral
Ivan Ryzhov as Vasiliy
Alexander Samoilov as Sergei's middle brother
Ekaterina Mazurova as Tanya's grandmother

Awards

In 1974 the film received the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.^[2]

References

^ "Романс о влюблённых". VokrugTV.
^ "History 19th festival". Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

External links

A Lover's Romance at IMDb

v t e Films by Andrei Konchalovsky
Feature films	The First Teacher (1965) The Story of Asya Klyachina (1966) A Nest of Gentry (1969) Uncle Vanya (1970) A Lover's Romance (1974) Siberiade (1979) Maria's Lovers (1984) Runaway Train (1985) Duet for One (1986) Shy People (1987) Homer and Eddie (1989) Tango & Cash (1989) The Inner Circle (1991) Assia and the Hen with the Golden Eggs (1994) House of Fools (2002) Gloss (2007) The Nutcracker in 3D (2010) The Postman's White Nights (2014) Paradise (2016) Sin (2019) Dear Comrades! (2020)
Short films	The Boy and the Dove (1961) Lumière and Company (segment; 1995) To Each His Own Cinema (segment: "Dans le Noir"; 2007)
Television	The Odyssey (1997) The Lion in Winter (2003)
Screenplays	The Steamroller and the Violin (1961) Andrei Rublev (1966) The Seventh Bullet (1972) The Ferocious One (1974) A Slave of Love (1976) Moscow Chill (2007) The Demons of St. Petersberg (story; 2008)

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