Forgotten melody for flute
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Forgotten melody for flute |
| Original title | Забытая мелодия для флейты |
| Country of production | USSR |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1987 |
| length | 134 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eldar Ryazanov |
| script |
Emil Braginski , Eldar Ryazanov |
| production | Mosfilm |
| music | Andrei Petrov |
| camera | Vadim Alissov |
| cut | Valeria Belowa |
| occupation | |
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Forgotten melody for flute (original title: Забытая мелодия для флейты , Sabytaja Melodija dlja flejty ) is a Soviet movie directed by Eldar Rjasanow from the year 1987 .
action
Leonid Semjonowitsch Filimonow is a functionary in a cultural administration in the Soviet Union . With the onset of perestroika , the agency has had difficulties adapting to the new political course. Even a complete choir has to personally support the administration for tickets for a trip to the Black Sea , which works because you just turn it into a concert tour. The cultural administration also has its own theater group, the current play of which has to be checked by Leonid Filiminov to ensure that it can be performed. Leonid himself does not find his work fulfilling and pointless, but does not have the courage to do something about it. The stress gnaws at him so much that he feels faint in the office. He is examined in the administration's first-aid station and sick leave for several days.
In the evening, the nurse Lida, who Leonid already knows from the medical center, appears at his home to give him an injection. Leonid begins to court her because his wife is in Leningrad at a symposium . Since she has to keep coming over the next few evenings, the two of them come closer and closer and enjoy themselves with foreign wormwood and caviar. When Lida mentions that he has also promised her music, he takes down a dusty box with a transverse flute from a cupboard and begins to play a song on it. Now it turns out that he once studied at the conservatory and, through his father-in-law, got the good post that secures him an apartment, a car and a good income. One evening Leonid's wife is surprisingly in the apartment and he tells her in Lida's presence that she takes care of him and does the dishes, of course for a fee.
Lida and Leonid now always meet secretly, although their colleagues also notice something. He toyed with the idea of confessing his wife's affair, but didn't dare. One day his wife learns from a caller that he has a lover, whereupon she puts the suitcase in front of his door. Now he tries to move in as a subtenant with Lida, who lives in a shared apartment, which is not so easy because she is disappointed with him. But then she gives in and he gets a bed set up behind a closet to sleep on. That goes well for several weeks until Leonid is scheduled for a promotion and the relationship is not exactly having a positive effect on his reputation. When his wife is reconciled with him, he moves back home.
On the day of his promotion to director, Lida quits because she can no longer work in the same building as him. Leonid Filimov is so affected by this first day of work in his new position that he collapses and cannot be resuscitated by the ambulance that has been summoned. When Lida notices this, she desperately brings him back to life, then she calls the rescue staff and goes on her way.
production
The film, shot in color, premiered on October 1, 1987 under the title Забытая мелодия для флейты in the Soviet Union.
In Germany it was shown for the first time on the occasion of the 33rd Days of Soviet Film on October 27, 1990 in the Berlin Kino International .
criticism
The lexicon of international films described the film as a love story that satirically denounces the deficits of perestroika and glasnost.
Web links
- Forgotten Melody for Flute in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Forgotten melody for flute at kino-teatr.ru
Individual evidence
- ↑ Forgotten melody for flute. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .