Lyubov i golubi

Well, what to say. A classic classic that has only just reached our hands.

To be honest, the film has an interesting description. Literally a description of most of the plot.

Yes, the film is about relationships and infidelity. While I was watching, I wondered if I had ever seen films where the catalyst for the main events coincided and at the same time it was all very well played and staged. It seems that there is not.

It's amazing, because the film is 40 years old!

In addition to the family drama, there was a place for funny scenes and moments. Again, all this rests solely on the actors. They say seemingly ordinary words, but how do they do it... Surprisingly.

It's not a tragicomedy, but you experience almost diametrically opposite emotions at different moments of the film.

That's what the cinema of the USSR could boast of, so it's such combinations of emotions, so much so that it does not slide into confusion and outright farce.

The Soviet film Love and Doves tells us about the life situation that many families face. The plot of the story is a reality that many people encounter in life. But how to cope with the emerging problems and twists and turns on the path of life, and why is this happening? Of course, this film does not touch upon the philosophical issues of being, but it shows us what should be the main thing.

In a person's life, who is his support and what you need to strive for. Although we all still understand what is good and what is bad, but everyone can stumble, but everyone deserves a chance to be forgiven. This film, despite the rather serious plot, is filled with humor, worldly experience and evokes only positive emotions in us. The excellent play of the actors shows the life of the outback in all its immediacy. We empathize with the main characters until the end of the film and hope for a happy ending. Whether he will or not, you will only know when you watch the film, because here it is life as it is.

a film about every day life.bitter comedy, good acting - far to be a surprise -, a simple story about every day events, warm definition of love, family and a form of innocence and kindness who could seems be strange. sure, expression of political change. far by politic but with moral references, it has the virtue to give credible characters, seductive story, lovely scenes and the poetry of the small things who defines many gems of Soviet cinema. its charm is irresistible. and the presence of legendary Ludmila Gurchenko is only one of the best examples. but the precious gift of Love and Doves is the status of story about nothing and about everything in same measure. the universal message, wise, amusing and precise about details of existence. a film about love and doves. and about the joy to live.

This is one of those movies whose plot does not tell very much. You need to see it to fully appreciate its perfection. I saw it for the first time in the 1980's. Today, more than a quarter of a century later, the movie looks as fresh and entertaining as before. Those who don't speak Russian lose a lot by not watching this piece of art.

Every character is authentic and original. Sergei Yursky, one of the famous Russian comedians, is especially funny as Dyadya Mitya. Aleksandr Mikhailov, who in most other films plays a macho, here does an outstanding job as a simpleton Vasya. Fortunately, the director balanced well the contribution of Lyudmila Gurchenko, a veteran of the Soviet cinema, with that of the others. After watching the movie you have the feeling that you have lived together with the heroes.

Vladimir Menshov's "Lyubov i golubi" (alternately called "Love and Pigeons" and "Love and Doves" in English) looks at the mishaps that ensue after a family man goes to a resort and has an affair. I understand that, despite the image of the ideal Soviet family man, plenty of men in the USSR had affairs. You can bet money that the same thing was going in the US (trust me, the United States and Soviet Union had more in common than they liked to admit). Basically, Vasiliy is attracted to Raisa's kindness, she to his knowledge, and the movie brings up the issue of whether or not marriage is a form of slavery.

Of course, it's possible to simply laugh at the absurd situation that the movie depicts. I liked it. I wonder what Alfred Hitchcock would have thought of this use of birds in a movie.