Fate woven the lives of famous actresses Edith Beres and Lada Nezhina into a tight knot, in which there was passion and recognition, love and betrayal, self-sacrifice and deceit, loyalty and oblivion. Now in the same nursing home, they wouldn’t have known about each other if Stephanie hadn’t made a film about their former glory. They finally met, and they have something to remember and talk about. The melodramatic series "Autumn Flowers" based on the novel by Irene Rozdobudko, covering the period
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Fate woven the lives of famous actresses Edith Beres and Lada Nezhina into a tight knot, in which there was passion and recognition, love and betrayal, self-sacrifice and deceit, loyalty and oblivion. Now in the same nursing home, they wouldn’t have known about each other if Stephanie hadn’t made a film about their former glory. They finally met, and they have something to remember and talk about. The melodramatic series "Autumn Flowers" based on the novel by Irene Rozdobudko, covering the period of time from the pre-war forties to the present, with magnificent Russian actresses Lyudmila Chursina and Svetlana Nemolyaeva in the lead roles is fascinating and first-class acting.
The dramatic story of unexpected love is told by the film “Talianka”. During the war in Italy in the partisan detachment fate brought down the Soviet more
The dramatic story of unexpected love is told by the film “Talianka”. During the war in Italy in the partisan detachment fate brought down the Soviet pilot Stepan. Joanna Moreau ). Having lost his wife and daughter during the war, Stepan fell in love with an Italian girl and, together with her and their daughter Sophie, came after the war to his homeland, to the village.
And here in the course of the events of the painting “Talianka” it turned out that Stepan’s relatives did not die. Not wanting to get between her legitimate wife and her beloved man, Juliet decided to return home, but there was a difficulty. By law, Sophie is a citizen of the USSR, and her mother is not allowed to take her with her. . close
The story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution.
The story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October Revolution. close
Three Half Graces is a 2006 comedy melodrama directed by David Keosayan. series "Love on the knife's edge" . melodrama "Mistress" ). Three old friends, more
Three Half Graces is a 2006 comedy melodrama directed by David Keosayan. series "Love on the knife's edge" . melodrama "Mistress" ).
Three old friends, who received the nickname “semigration” in childhood, are already over forty. They excelled in the professional field: Sonya is the director of the travel agency, Alice is the head of the television company, Natasha is the lead editor of the magazine. But in the personal life of the problem — one left the husband, the other lives with a tyrannical mother, and the third is still in free flight. But one day, the women gave alms, and in gratitude received balloons, inside which were written mysterious predictions. . . close
Mishka Yaponchik was a Ukrainian gangster, Jewish, lived in Odessa at the beginning of the XX century, the military leader of two thousand of gangsters more
Mishka Yaponchik was a Ukrainian gangster, Jewish, lived in Odessa at the beginning of the XX century, the military leader of two thousand of gangsters and the prototype of Benia Krik in The "Odessa Tales" by Soviet Jewish writer Isaak Babel. Born Moisei Vinnitsky, Yaponchik ("the Japanese") was an exceptional and eccentric character. Hailed as the next Robin Hood, he established his own code of conduct forbidding the robbing of the poor and professional classes. close
Tyazhely Pesok / Heavy Sand follows an Ukrainian Jewish family over 30 years against the backdrop of dramatic events in the Soviet Union in the first more
Tyazhely Pesok / Heavy Sand follows an Ukrainian Jewish family over 30 years against the backdrop of dramatic events in the Soviet Union in the first half of the 20th century: WWI, the Bolshevik revolution, the pogroms in Ukraine, the Stalinist repression, WWII and Nazi occupation, the ghetto and annihilation.
It is ultimately a story about human nature, about the triumph of love against all odds (e.g. despite the seemingly incompatible backgrounds of the two lovers, Rakhil and Jakov) and of its resilience over time and circumstance. It is about family bonds, about human altruism, dignity and courage. Also about cruelty and the holocaust, a tribute to the Jews that suffered and to the non-Jews who were willing to risk their own lives to help them.
The acting is generally outstanding, as is the filming and the music. Attention to historical detail is exquisite (clothes, decors, culture…).
The script departs substantially from Rybakov's novel, on which the film is based, bringing in some different characters and scenes. I guess this was partly unavoidable, because of the novel's narrative approach, compared to the need for dialogues in the film, which had to be made up.
The series is, in my opinion, not without flaws. It combines some truly moving scenes with others that left me wondering what the point was, and thinking that 16 episodes were not needed after all. Although the characters' complexity rings true, some of the scenes seem implausible. Plus the 2 main characters hardly age throughout the film, everybody speaks Russian everywhere… While the film captures much of the spirit of the book, it is weaker in many respects, including in its portrayal of Jewish suffering. Needless to say, I preferred the book, but this is almost always so. Provided you are not looking for 100% accurate history, nor 100% Rybakov's novel you may, like me, be left with a very positive overall impression.
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