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A Slave of Love (1976) Raba lyubvi

Posted By: MirrorsMaker
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A Slave of Love (1976) Raba lyubvi

A Slave of Love (1976)
DVDRip | MKV | 716x536 | x264 @ 2245 Kbps | 89 min | 1,47 Gb
Audio: Русский AC3 1.0 @ 96 Kbps | Subs: English, Français, Русский
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Writers: Fridrikh Gorenshteyn, Andrey Konchalovskiy (as Andrey Mikhalkov-Konchalovskiy)
Stars: Elena Solovey, Rodion Nahapetov, Aleksandr Kalyagin

Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centered life. Love blooms. Will the Red forces arrive in time to save them from a suspicious White military leader? Will she find courage?


This movie performed a miracle - it captured a mood, an atmosphere so raw, full, that you are feeling the stuffy summer air, the slow dusty wind, candy-sweet smell of southern flowers in a hot small Krimean town. The fact that the revolution is coming closer makes it eary and subtly frightening, as if you know that there`s a needle in someone`s bouquet of camelias.

The acting is done in a way that you can`t believe it is not documentary, but film frames are like a picture frames, they airy and weightlessly capture fading scenes of decadent beauty. Then the violence comes and awakens the characters, they are silly,comical and immensely tragic at the same time.But even the shootings and some real documental footage don`t brake the atmosphiere, it only changes, darkens, like before the storm. All of it is symbolically captured in a scene in the garden, when the operator is trying to tell Olga that the old life is stale, unjust, senseless, the rush of wind runs over the park growing in strength along with the monologue. But she does not understand him, she thinks he`s just jealous and laughs in ignorance of the storms to come.
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A Slave of Love (1976) Raba lyubvi

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