Cinema
Tenderness
Nezhnost
Elyor Ishmukhamedov · 1967
Synopsis
Three stories that answer one another, in the Tashkent of the sixties. Sanjar, who leads a gang of boys floating down the river on inner tubes, meets Lena, a little older than he is, and falls in love with her without being loved in return. Lena, evacuated from Leningrad as a child during the siege, loves Timur and is loved by him. Around them, the schoolgirl Mamura in turn becomes attached to Timur and tries to console him.
Context
The film, its author's diploma work, was shot in Tashkent in 1966. The earthquake that struck the city that year interrupted the shoot: planned locations were destroyed, a curfew complicated the work, and the initial project gave way to improvisation and hidden camera. The film, divided into three parts, runs seventy-four minutes. It has recently been screened in Berlin and Innsbruck, in series devoted to youth in Soviet cinema.
Who it is for
In Russian, with no French version. It is better to know that one of the three parts goes back to the siege of Leningrad, from which the heroine was evacuated as a child to Central Asia.
Prizes and reception
A rare first feature entrusted so young to a Soviet director, it is now shown in cinematheques across Europe.
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