Cinema
Spring on Zarechnaya Street
Весна на Зарічній вулиці
Synopsis
Near the blast furnaces, Tatiana Serhiivna, a young schoolteacher from a big city, takes over the evening class where workers study literature after their day's work. Sasha, a foundry worker at the plant, loud and self-assured, falls for this reserved young woman, who is better educated than he is; but between the furnace man and the city girl, words pass badly.
Context
Khutsiev's first version of the screenplay was rejected and he completed it with Mironer; the director of the Odessa studio, Oleksandr Horsky, invited them on the condition that they work together. Shot from 1953, mostly in Zaporizhzhia, the film was released on 26 November 1956. It launched the careers of Yuri Belov, Nikolai Rybnikov and Gennady Yukhtin, young graduates of the Moscow institute, opposite a non-professional actress, Nina Ivanova.
Who it is for
A film of an hour and thirty-six minutes, between melodrama and comedy, shot in the streets and factories of a real working-class town.
Prizes and reception
More than thirty million viewers; streets in Zaporizhzhia and Odessa took its name, and its song became a popular tune.
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