10 undeservedly forgotten Soviet love films that deserve audience attention

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

Many Soviet films have long become classics, they are loved and revised several times, and the plot and the words of the characters are known by heart. However, among the samples of Soviet cinema there are also those that have been undeservedly forgotten, and TV channels seem to ignore their existence. Nevertheless, these films deserve no less attention from viewers than, for example, the same "Winter Cherry" or "Vacation at your own expense."

"Call me into the bright distance", 1984, director Igor Talankin

The film, based on Yuri Nagibin's story "Patience", tells the story of two new additions to one Leningrad family. And spending time together on the ship turns not into a pleasant vacation for loved ones, but into an endless and exhausting extract from the annals of the memory of all the ins and outs of family life. When the main character, whose role is played by Alla Demidova, meets a man who was once loved, missing and, in fact, buried long ago, she begins to understand how unfair fate turned out to be to her.

First Married, 1979, directed by Joseph Kheifits

For the main character of the film, performed by Evgenia Glushenko, at the age of 40, life is really just beginning. She gave birth to a daughter at the age of 20, devoted herself entirely to the child, putting an end to her own personal life. But fate gave her another chance to become happy, however, the adult daughter does not want to accept the mother's right to personal happiness.

"Autumn", 1974, directed by Andrey Smirnov

The story of two lovers ended in parting, but old feelings, as it turned out, did not want to let go of both. And yet they tried to enter the same river a second time, despite both having families. Will two once close people be able to return to times of unconditional happiness and all-consuming love, or will the seven happy days they spend in the village completely rid them of the ghosts of the past?

Legal Marriage, 1985, directed by Albert S. Mkrtchyan

This film became the best in 1986 according to the poll of the magazine "Soviet Screen". It tells how the leading actor of the theater evacuated to Tashkent decides to help a seriously ill girl return to the capital and enters into a fictitious marriage with her. True, even after the girl was in Moscow, none of the spouses rushed to the registry office for a divorce. But soon the lovers will be separated: the young husband is taken to the front.

"Every Night at Eleven", 1969, directed by Samson Samsonov

Is it possible to randomly call on the phone and immediately hit the bull's-eye, recognizing the woman who will become the hero's wife by her voice? Despite the fact that the main character, even before he dialed the phone number, had already given his word: to marry the woman who answered him. However, the hero has yet to find the owner of such a pleasant voice.

"Two on the way", 1979, director Leonid Maryagin

The desire to take revenge on the young man who injured the main character is poured into the image of a romance with a truck driver. True, the invented novel soon develops into a girl's crush. But will she be able to build her happiness with a man who has a bad experience of family life behind him, and win the heart of his little daughter?

"Who will go to Truskavets?", 1977, director Valery Akhadov

A stunning lyrical and dramatic sketch about love, where the heroes have already crossed the 30-year mark and see in the representatives of the opposite sex not only advantages, but also disadvantages. And also this is a film that you believe from the first to the last frame, because the people in it are real, and their feelings are genuine and sincere.

"Rain in a strange city", 1980, directors Vladimir Gorpenko and Mikhail Reznikovich

Probably, there were many such stories, which is why the picture "Rain in a Strange City" is so captivating. A simple engineer who came on a business trip to the city of Lykov suddenly falls in love with a lively beauty. And all would be fine, but his wife is waiting for him in Leningrad, and his beloved is increasingly declaring her desire to create a real family.

"Without witnesses", 1983, director Nikita Mikhalkov

The film, surprisingly strong in emotional terms, is based on the play by Sofia Prokofieva "Conversation without a witness." There are only two heroes here, and all the action takes place within the walls of one apartment. Once they loved each other, and then the man betrayed the woman's feelings, preferring a career and a prosperous future to his wife and son. And now the hero's future depends on how well the ex-wife remembers their common past.

"Late Meeting", 1978, director Vladimir Shredel

This meeting turned out to be too late for the characters in the film. And yet they had a whole day to love and dream, believe, hope and be happy. A whole life was held on this day, and then the lovers will have to keep warm memories of happiness. Or will they still be able, throwing away conventions, to meet at least once more?

Recently, the filmmakers of the world do not get tired of delighting the audience with bright projects. True, viewing many of them drags on for months, and sometimes years. Therefore, more and more often people give preference to small series, which can be viewed in just one day. I must say that among them there are truly exciting stories. It is simply impossible to break away from them from the very first to the last episode.