Front romance
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Front romance |
| Original title | Военно-полевой роман |
| Country of production | Soviet Union |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pyotr Todorovsky |
| script | Pyotr Todorovsky |
| production | Odessa film studio |
| music |
Igor Kantjukow Pyotr Todorovsky |
| camera | Valery Blinov |
| occupation | |
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Frontromanze is a Soviet love story directed by Pyotr Todorowski from 1984.
action
During the Second World War, the young soldier Netushilin, known as Sascha, falls for the medic Ljuba. She is the battalion commander's mistress and doesn't know him. In turn, his thoughts are only with her and her laugh, which fascinates him so much about her. When it becomes clear that the soldiers will shortly attack, he says goodbye to her and gives her a flower. It is the only time they both talk to each other in a war.
A few years after the war, Sascha became a projectionist. He married the teacher Vera and the marriage is happy. One winter day Sascha thinks he recognizes Ljuba in a penniless pierogi seller on Moscow Street. She has adapted to the harsh environment, has become loud and rough and tries to raise her little daughter as a single mother. The battalion commander fell shortly before the end of the war, and she never knows whether the money will be enough to pay the rent for the small room that a lover has given her.
Sascha won Ljuba's heart quietly but persistently. He regularly buys her pierogi, gives her a flower and makes her regain self-respect. He takes them to concerts and neglects his work as a projectionist. The complaints pile up and so the film theater director finally speaks to Vera. He proves her husband is having an affair, but Vera cannot be jealous. When he doesn't come home for New Year's Eve, she goes to Ljuba's apartment. Sascha and Ljuba appear a little later and Ljuba is initially aggressive towards the competition. However, they quickly understand each other and all three spend New Year's Eve together - Ljuba also gets to know the understanding, family-like relationship between Sascha and Vera. Vera, on the other hand, is fearful but understanding about the love triangle: Sascha promises never to leave her and Vera knows that it is less love than compassion that binds Sascha to Ljuba, as he feels her fate is unjust.
Under Sasha's influence, Ljuba starts looking for a new apartment, which she has to apply to the residential district committee. Together with Sascha, she speaks to the deputy there and makes it clear to him that she would also fulfill wishes for an apartment. While Sascha is embarrassed, the deputy feels addressed. She has to fill out an application and meets the deputy again. One day Lyuba disappeared and Sascha has been looking for her in vain for a long time. She has given up her job as a pierogi seller and no longer lives in her old apartment. Without Sascha's knowledge she comes to Vera one day and they both drink and sing together and become friends. Lyuba confesses to Vera that she is going to marry the representative of the residential district committee and both women burst into tears. Sascha finally learns from Ljuba's ex-boyfriend where Ljuba lives and sees her there with her new husband and daughter. He goes and Lyuba runs after him, but Sascha rejects her. Desperate, he walks past houses in the snow and steps to the downpipes, so that the snow and ice dissolve and fall with a roar onto the street. Sascha is arrested for disturbing the peace and taken to guard by a mounted policeman on horseback. Meanwhile, Vera felt that something was wrong and caught up with the horse. She runs after the policeman and asks him sometimes mockingly, sometimes ironically and sometimes desperately for understanding. When even the residents of the surrounding houses, laughing loudly, look out the window at the dissimilar trio, the policeman lets Sascha get off his horse and rides away. Sascha and Vera stay behind.
production
Front romance had its premiere in the Soviet Union in February 1984 and was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival that same month . It was released in GDR cinemas on October 26, 1984. On September 23, 1984 the film ran for the first time on DFF 2 on East German television.
synchronization
The dialogue of the DEFA dubbing was written by Wolfgang Krüger, the direction was taken by Horst Schappo .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Netushiline | Nikolai Burlyayev | Helmut Geffke |
| Lyuba | Natalja Andreitschenko | Angelika Waller |
| Vera | Inna Churikova | Barbara Trommer |
| Katja | Ekaterina Yudina | Julia Hoffmann |
| Movie theater director | Sinowi Gerdt | Joachim Konrad |
| His wife | Jelena Koselkowa | Waltraud Kramm |
| Novikov | Viktor Proskurin | Joachim Siebenschuh |
| Grisha | Vsevolod Shilovsky | Winfried Freudenreich |
| The ice cream seller | Natalja Tschentschik | Lilo Grahn |
criticism
For the film service , front romance was “a love story told very poetically with tragic and comical accents. An unusually sensitive film with outstanding actors. "
Awards
Inna Tschurikowa received the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1984 . The film also ran in the competition for the Golden Bear.
Inna Tschurikowa and Natalja Andreitschenko were honored as best actresses at the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid 1984.
Frontromanze received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1985 , but could not prevail against Dangerous Trains .
Web links
- Front romance in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vg. Kino-teatr.ru
- ↑ Front romance. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .