Love and Pigeons

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Love and Pigeons
Love and Pigeons.jpg
Directed byVladimir Menshov
Written by
StarringAleksandr Mikhailov
Nina Doroshina
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Cinematography
Edited byR. Pesetskaya
Music by
Production
company
Release date
  • 7 January 1985 (1985-01-07)
Running time
107 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Love and Pigeons (Russian: Любовь и голуби, romanized: Lyubov i golubi) is a 1984 Soviet romantic comedy film by Vladimir Menshov whose previous film Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It is based on scriptwriter 's play of the same name.[1]

The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1984 and sold some 44.5 million tickets.[2] An outdoor sculpture based on the film's characters was unveiled in Cheremkhovo, Siberia in 2011.[3]

Plot[]

Vasily Kuzyakin (Alexander Mikhailov), an amateur pigeon breeder, lives in a small town with his wife Nadezhda and three children: Lyuda, who has returned from the city after parting with her husband, Lyonka, and Olya, her father's favorite. When Vasily is injured at work, he is given a ticket to a seaside resort. While on holiday, Vasily meets a woman from the city named Raisa Zakharovna (Lyudmila Gurchenko), with whom he eventually has an affair. After some time with Raisa in her city apartment, Vasily comes to miss his family and regrets his decision to leave them.

Production[]

Vladimir Gurkin did not make up this story: it actually happened to his acquaintances who had the same surname in the film. The prototypes of Mitya and Shura were Gurkin’s grandparents.

Vladimir Menshov saw the play quite by accident. When he saw Nina Doroshina playing the role of Nadya in the Sovremennik theatre he decided to make a movie.

Shura – Natalya Tenyakova and Mitya - Sergei Yursky are husband and wife in real life.

In the script Nadya is a middle-aged woman and Shura is an old retired woman, whereas in real life Nina Doroshina who played Nadya is 10 years older than Natalya Tenyakova who played Shura in the film. At the time of filming Nina Doroshina was 50 years old and Natalya Tenyakova was 40.

The film was shot in Karelia, on the outskirts of the city of Medvezhyegorsk, in a house on the bank of the river Kumsa. The vacation episodes were shot in Batumi.

Cast[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Lyubov i golubi". IMDb.
  2. ^ Ф. Раззаков. Гибель советского кино: Тайны закулисной войны, 1973-1991. Изд-во "ЭКСМО", 2008. Стр. 688.
  3. ^ "«Любовь и голуби» прописались в Черемхове. В городе угольщиков открыли памятник Василию и Надежде Кузякиным".

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