Vladislav Strzhelchik Movies
- 1984
In this drama about an ambitious woman, Svetlana (Vera Alentova) is not yet married and soon to be 40, an unhappy state of affairs that she first thinks about remedying with a composer, but he is not quite ready for a serious commitment. Next, she sets her sights on Vladimir (Anatoliy Papanov), an agreeable civil servant who is attracted by her charms, and the two marry. Svetlana's ambitions far exceed his own, and she is not above visiting the office of his supervisor to promote her husband's talents. As aggressive as she is, her constant pressure works, and eventually her husband has risen in his career and also becomes the kind of man he may not have wanted to be. But just as Svetlana is all set to rest on her laurels, fate takes a giant step into the picture. Anatoliy Papanov departed from his usual comic roles to play Vladimir in this film, and Vera Alentova previously starred in the Oscar-winning Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vera Alentova, Anatoli Papanov, (more)
- 1978
Tormented by his many high ideals and equally numerous failures to live up to them, an elderly Russian nobleman reminisces about his life while travelling on a ferryboat, as he listens to his fellow passengers telling stories about their religious faith. When he was a boy, he attended a military academy. He was so filled with high ideals and belief in the sacred person of the Tsar even then that he slapped a superior officer who, in his view, had betrayed those ideals. As a man, his troubled conscience led him to follow the monastic ideal and become a priest. However, his sexual urges were so overwhelming, even though they did not cause public trouble, that he shaved his beard and pretended that he never took holy orders. When an affair with a childhood girlfriend offers nothing in the way of consolation, he heads for Siberia, where he serves the peasantry as a teacher and a doctor. This film, commemorating the 150th year after the birth of Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), is based on his last short story. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Sergei Bondarchuk, Valentina Titova, (more)
