- I stopped loving movies... Movies, like people, have different fates. Some immediately get into wide distribution, winning the hearts of millions of viewers, others, as if to hard labor, are sent to indefinite exile to the ill-fated “shelf”. The story of “Only Three Nights” is like that. Gavriil Georgievich Yeghiazarov - film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, People's Artist of the RSFSR - made his film based on the story of the wonderful Soviet writer Alexander Mikhailovich Borshchagovsky "Night" (1965). Almost immediately after filming, this film was put on the shelf for many years. In 1988, the film was restored, and its premiere took place in May 1989, when the director was no longer alive.
“For what?” asks today’s young Spectator, who did not survive that time. What could frighten this small, as a story, the story of a difficult love of two, a rural film mechanic and an exemplary kolkhoz woman (she is also a beautiful woman, the mother of a teenage boy)? Shocked by the prudish display of irresistible feelings, the drama of four people, which is told from the screen sincerely, tenderly and chastely? What and to whom did this early screen “village prose”, a contemporary of the “Chairman”, “History of Asi Klyachina ... & # 34;, Shukshi paintings?” But even now the viewer, who loves cinema, will appreciate the authenticity of feelings, the play of Nina Gulyaeva, the lyrical atmosphere of the action.
The answer is simple, although not obvious. The first story of the “Ryazan chick” “Night” was written and published in 1965, and it touched on a topic that at that time no one had yet spoken about – “materialism, rabid acquisition, passion for personal enrichment, which divides people and whose manifestations now have to fight our society.” But that's not the point. Most likely, officials from the cinema did not arrange unusual for the time love triangle, especially since the “top” of this geometric figure is a film mechanic Nikolai (Valery Kozinets) – a person frankly unsympathetic (not face, here everything is in order: “In each port – a sailor, in each village – a Siberian”), but spiritually.
Not only is he only interested in the “principle of material interest” in life, he treats women only from the point of view of personal gain: “If, like other peoples, you could have two wives!” Lyuba Ermakova (Nina Gulyaeva) turned out in the film the same as the writer created it. Her image also comes from the great Russian literature, from her admiration for a woman, from her recognition of the woman’s right to conscientious judgment and mercy, to curse and forgiveness – from Pushkin’s Tatiana Larina and Masha Mironova, from Nekrasov Orina, Daria, Princess Trubetskaya, from Turgenev women, from Natasha Rostova and Sonia Marmeladova, from their love, compassion and patience ...
You can't judge Luba. Is it possible to judge a person for love, for loyalty, for loyalty? For having nurtured and nurtured a germ of tender feeling for many months? For the warmth she gave to a man who did not understand what the true value of such a jewel was? (": Love among men is scant - who will look, who will say what...) But that’s what life is like – not everyone can find happiness. But everyone will have minutes that he will remember with warmth and love until the end of his days.