Feature film
Beloved
Любимая
Richard Viktorov · 1965
Synopsis
Ira Iegorova, an orphan raised by her uncle and aunt, finishes school without knowing what to do. She meets the television reporter Rostik, then Volodia Levadov, a young building worker who lodges with his foreman, Bliakhine. She in turn joins Volodia's crew, on a building site where Bliakhine skims his share from the workers' pay; when Ira accuses him of corruption, life on the site turns sour.
Context
Belarusfilm adapts the novel L'Ambre by Nikolai Pogodin from a screenplay by Oleg Stukalov; Yuri Marukhin is behind the camera and Evgeny Glebov composes the music. Alexandra Nazarova plays Ira, Vitali Solomin Volodya and Svetlana Druzhinina Sofia; the reporter Rostik is played by Igor Dobrolyubov, who would become a director at the same studio. The shoot features the new Minsk, from the roof of the Opera to the Dynamo stadium and the Palace of Sports under construction; the interiors are shot in the studio.
Who it is for
A teenage romance in Russian, about an hour and twenty minutes long, also worth seeing for its views of the city.
Prizes and reception
A film of the Thaw, mixing romance, a debate on the meaning of life and a light criticism of Soviet daily life, which people watch again for its images of the Minsk of the sixties.
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