Lyubov i golubi

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Nina Doroshina, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Natalya Tenyakova, and Sergey Yurskiy in Lyubov i golubi (1985)

Injured on the job Vasily Kuzyakin gets a ticket to the resort. There he meets femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, and once under the charm, moves to live with her. Unfortunately, a new life is n... Read allInjured on the job Vasily Kuzyakin gets a ticket to the resort. There he meets femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, and once under the charm, moves to live with her. Unfortunately, a new life is not all that sweet as dreamed hapless Vasily.Injured on the job Vasily Kuzyakin gets a ticket to the resort. There he meets femme fatale Raisa Zakharovna, and once under the charm, moves to live with her. Unfortunately, a new life is not all that sweet as dreamed hapless Vasily.

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- 1 nomination total

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While shooting the episode with Vasily falling out of the doorway of his house and into the sea, the actor almost died. The scene was being shot as follows: the actor came down from the pier, several divers helped him out of his clothes under water and he came up to the surface with only his trunks on. The first take seemed too slow to the director, so another one was taken. There was a problem with the tie under water, the actor almost drowned and they had to tear the tie. In the end the third take became final, in which the torn tie had been patched up again.

Quotes
Raisa Zakharovna: Bread is a poison!
Vasya: Oh, I wouldn't mind getting poisoned by a good slice of bread!

Connections
Featured in Namedni 1961-2003: Nasha Era: Namedni 1984 (1997)

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10/10

birds of paradise and not-so-paradise

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.