1976

Description : Romantic Drama- Period Film-Showbiz Drama

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov

Country: Russian

Heroism: Yelena Solovey - Olga

Artists: Alexander Kalyagin Rodion Nakhapetov - Victor Oleg Basilashvili- Yuzhakov Konstantin Grigoryev - Fedotov Nikolai Pastukhov Vera Kuznetsova Gotlib Roninson Inna Ulyanova Yevgeny Steblov Nikita Mikhalkov Vladimir Komissarov

Fridrikh Gorenshtein - Screenwriter
Andrei Konchalovsky- Screenwriter
Pavel Lebeshev - Cinematographer
Eduard Artemyev- Composer (Music Score)
Alexander Adabachian - Production Designer / Set Designer

Description:

Nikita Mikhalkov examines the plight of the filmmaker operating in an uncertain political climate in his irony-laden seriocomedy Slave of Love. The time is 1918, at the height of the Bolshevik revolution. Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman. Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centered life. Love blooms. Will the Red forces arrive in time to save them from a suspicious White military leader? Will she find courage?
Normally described as "Chekhovian," director Mikhalkov borrows a few pages from Pirandello. With Slave of Love he gained his first serious international attention.