7 Soviet films about first love that you want to watch

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The American film industry also produces a category of films called teen films. For the most part, this is a comedy about young people's relationships. But even in dramas you will not find even a hint of the quivering feeling that was so subtly and delicately described in Soviet films. Today we want to offer a selection of the best Russian works, where special attention is paid to the theme of first love. They are really touching, a little sad, sometimes acutely social, and the feelings of the protagonists are pure and devoid of the now fashionable exploitation of sexual desires.

"I ask you to blame Klava K. for my death", 1979

The story of Mikhail Lvovsky of the same name served as the basis for this remarkable film. In the center of the plot is the love of Sergei (Vladimir Shevelkov), who from childhood admires the pretty Klava (Nadezhda Gorshkova). He carried his feeling through the years - he idolized the girl in kindergarten, took care of at school. Time passed, and a young man and a girl were already in front of the audience. Sergey is still in love and is completely sure that it will always be so. The young princess is so used to the shadow in the form of a fan that she simply begins to ignore him. Moreover, a new student came to the parallel class - bright and self-confident, ready for bold deeds, with whom you can look at the world in a new way. Sergei's heart breaks tragically, and he seriously thinks about parting with his life. The film received many prizes at film festivals, and its creators were awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR.

"Valentine and Valentine", 1985

A subtle psychological drama based on a play by the wonderful playwright Mikhail Roshchin. The main characters were students with similar names, played by Nikolai Stotsky and Marina Zudina. A tender and vivid feeling flares up between young people, which is possible only at the age of eighteen. It seems that they have a wonderful joint future ahead, but then parents interfere in their relationship. Experienced adults have their own point of view on the future of children, so they try their best to separate the couple. The intrigues of others lead to the fact that the feelings of young lovers are tested by jealousy, mutual resentment and quarrels. Will they be able to maintain tender feelings and will they remain devoted to each other?

Sixteenth Spring, 1962

What is a fifteen-year-old guy capable of for his love? Young Slavka (Vladimir Gogolinsky) was inflamed with feelings for the charming Natasha (Roza Makagonova). However, his beloved is a little older and is already working. To be closer to the girl, Slavka leaves school and gets a job as a car mechanic. But hopes are not destined to come true - Natasha already has a fiancé from truck drivers. And life among the drinking mentors is somewhat different from the guy who was expecting heroic deeds. The young man is disappointed, despair pushes him to move. Real friends who happened to be around in time provide support to the guy, he looks at the current situation in a new way and finds a new path in life.

"We lived next door", 1981

In this wonderful film you will find not only a story about the first youthful love with its longing, tenderness and lofty dreams, but also a story about the relationship between generations. Nadia (Margarita Lobko) and Seryozha (Anton Golyshev) live nearby and experience vivid feelings. But suddenly they themselves notice that their parents are not indifferent to each other. The adults are going to get married, but the news of this does not make their children happy at all. Teenagers, with their age-specific selfishness and tendency to exaggerate, discourage marriage. Mother Nadia and father Seryozha are ready to make a sacrifice in order to maintain good relations with their offspring. Will their children be able to become more tolerant and realize their mistakes?

"There was a dog on the piano", 1978

The basis for writing the script was the story "The Unromantic Man" by the writer Victoria Tokareva. Village, fifteen-year-old girl Tanya (Elena Kishchik), in whose head thoughts about a romantic life are swarming. She does not like the boring life in her native village at all, but on TV everything is different - bright, full of events and heroic deeds. Tanya decides to change her life and falls in love with a guy with a romantic profession - the pilot Komarov (Valery Kislenko). However, the whole picture is spoiled by the neighbor's boyfriend Misha (Alexander Fomin). A young tractor driver tells the girl about his love and far-reaching intentions - to create a family with her and live happily ever after away from the city noise. What will Tanya choose? The heroine's younger sister, who has a mischievous ditty for every moment, brings a comic note to the picture.

Loyalty, 1965

War does not spare tender feelings. The tenth grader Yura (Vladimir Chetverikov) is forced to go to the infantry school, because the Great Patriotic War is in the yard and it is necessary to avenge his father who died at the hands of the Nazis. There the student meets a beautiful girl Zoya (Galina Polskikh). Once, together with a friend, he manages to get to visit her, and tender feelings flare up between the young people. But time flies inexorably, and now the young defender of the homeland is traveling by train to the front. Outside the window, pictures of devastation flicker, and the young man thinks that he never confessed his love to his chosen one. The day of the first baptism of fire comes, where the lieutenant leads his platoon on the offensive.

"You never dreamed of", 1981

Perhaps the writer Galina Shcherbakova in her novel "Roman and Yulka" wanted to draw an analogy with the story of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. However, the creators of the film "You Never Dreamed of" decided to make their characters a little different and changed the name and name of the main character. Katya (Tatiana Aksyuta) moves with her family to a new place of residence and there she gets to know a new class. Among her acquaintances is Roma (Nikita Mikhailovsky), and a bright feeling arises between the teenagers. Classmates joke, but adults are ambiguous in their judgments. Some teachers do not believe - Katya and Roma seem too young to them for such feelings. Katya's mother supports her daughter in every possible way, because she herself recently got married a second time.

But Roma's mother, on the contrary, opposes youthful love, because once upon a time Roma's father was in love with Katya's mother himself, which is why the girl is disgusting to her. In order to separate the young people, she persuades Roman's grandmother to pretend to be sick, and sends her son to take care of the allegedly sick person from Moscow to Leningrad. Will young lovers be able to survive the separation, or will the desire of adults to protect them "from all sorts of nonsense" be stronger? Let's just say that this picture was named the best film of 1981, and 26 million viewers watched it at the box office.