Igor Nefedov Movies
- 1984
The perennial clash between sophisticated yet stressed-out city life versus the often overly romanticized pull of the countryside is the theme in this lightly sketched story of an art expert, the art he loves, and the call of the paint brush. When a modern art historian (Rodion Nakhepetov) arrives in a village on a quest for primitive art for an exhibition he is mounting in Paris, he becomes good friends with Seraphim Polubes (Eduard Bocharov), a local artist who paints murals on his humble abode. Soon the world-weary art expert is finding an extremely enjoyable and distracting companionship among the villagers and Polubes' group of friends, individual characters all. Their company is bringing back memories of the time he wanted to paint rather than critique painting, and that newly awakened desire is melded with another kind of desire awakened by an attractive young blond woman barely half his age. Thus stimulated, his interest in going back to life in Moscow is understandably dampened -- but not his budding romance. As he gets ready to take that train back to the life he once knew, he is faced with a moment of truth and a decision that could permanently change his career. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Rodion Nakhapetov, Eduard Bocharov, (more)
- 1982
An imaginative 13-year-old teenager maintains that the great Russian writer Alexander Pushkin was her direct ancestor, something that intrigues a 19-year-old cousin who comes to visit. She takes him to a decaying country house that she says was the place where her illustrious forbear trysted with a certain young lady. When he hears more of the girl's story and sees the house, her cousin starts to have serious doubts about this tall tale, and after he meets an intriguing young lady himself, he shatters his little cousin's illusions with the truth -- something she was not quite prepared to hear. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Tanya Kovshova, Tatyana Drubich, (more)
- 1980
Critically acclaimed director Vadim Abdrashitov once again uses a screenplay by Alexander Mindadze for this social drama in which Soviet youths are depicted as sullen and disrespectful to authority. Viktor Belov is a factory worker who is attacked by two teenage thugs. One youth is given probation, but Vladimir is sentenced to two years in prison. Viktor is troubled by the trial and the jailing of his young assailant and visits him in prison. Filmed in 1980, the feature was not released until 1988 and was reviewed at the Toronto Film Festival. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Vladimir Gostyukhin, Irina Muravyeva, (more)
- 1979
This nostalgic comedy drama is set during the time of "communal apartments" in the 1950s, when very diverse people had to share pre-revolutionary apartments. Here, a woman who lives in such an apartment in Moscow has likeable neighbors who always come to her at the wrong moment to watch TV. She is an independent, emancipated woman. She meets an ambitious engineer from the provinces whom she likes, but things are not perfect between them and there are frequent breakups, which are not eased by having the neighbors almost literally in their laps most of the time. This very popular film is based on a play by Alexander Volodin. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lyudmila Gurchenko, Stanislav Lyubshin, (more)
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