Winter evening in Gagra

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Movie
German title Winter evening in Gagra
Original title Зимний вечер в Гаграх
Country of production USSR
original language Russian
Publishing year 1985
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Karen Shachnasarov
script Alexander Borodjansky
Karen Shachnasarov
production Mosfilm
music Anatoly Kroll
camera Vladimir Shevzik
occupation

Winter Evening in Gagra (Original title: Зимний вечер в Гаграх , Simni wetscher w Gagrach ) is a Soviet feature film directed by Karen Shachnasarow from 1985 .

action

In a television studio one prepares for the recording of a tap dancer who is supposed to perform the dance of a gaucho with orchestra accompaniment . The camera fails, however, and while the repair is being carried out, the artists occupy themselves with improvisation in dance and music, as well as other things, until the recording can be completed.

The rehearsals for the new program, which is called EDV and is supposed to show what technology and art have in common, begin in a variety theater . The coach of the dancers is the former well-known tap dancer Alexei Ivanovich Beglow. During a break, an Arkady Grachev from Vorkuta contacted him and asked for a tap dance lesson, as acquaintances had told him that he had a talent for it. Beglow refuses at first because he has never given private lessons, but is convinced by the expected payment. With the money he wants to fulfill a long-cherished wish to buy a used couch that he has already seen in a furniture store.

On television, Beglow sees a program called Forgotten Names and recognizes himself in an old clip in which he is dancing the gaucho . The moderator then explains that Alexei Beglow is no longer among the living. Now he calls his divorced wife first and tells her new husband that he is still alive. Then he talks to Grachkov, who works as a zoo keeper in a Moscow circus, about what he saw. Both drive to the television station, whose editor in charge apologizes and promises to clarify the truth in the next broadcast. Afterwards, he speaks to his daughter on the phone, but she has no time because she has to prepare for an exam. Back home, he dreams of his successful time as a tap dancer.

The next day in the vaudeville theater he found out that many had seen the show and had already collected the money for a wreath, which he was now to receive as a gift. The director is so enthusiastic about the gaucho number that he wants to include it in the program. Since there are no more tap dancers, Beglow tries to convince his student Grachkov to take on the role. But he realized that he is not suitable for the step. The next morning, Beglow receives a visit from his daughter, who asks him not to come to her wedding, which hits him very hard. This daughter could already quilt at the age of three and if she wanted to ask her father for something, she could always achieve it with one quilt.

Beglow says goodbye to the vaudeville theater and wants to buy the chosen sofa from the furniture store with the money she got. This was sold in the meantime because it was thought that he had died. Back on the street, he collapses and is taken to a hospital. Here he is visited by the tap dancer who is unable to attend, who brings a television set so that both can watch the program Forgotten Names with the apology. Then Beglow recounts his best experience, which he had with his little daughter: In winter they both go to the almost empty health resort Gagra and they perform a tap dance together. With this memory he closes his eyes forever. Arkady Grachev may eventually become a tap dancer after all.

production

The film, shot in color, premiered in December 1985 under the title Зимний вечер в Гаграх in the Soviet Union and attracted over 12.7 million viewers.

In Germany it was shown for the first time on October 25, 1991 in the Berlin Filmtheater Friedrichstrasse in the House of Soviet Science and Culture in the original language with German subtitles.

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