3 Movies Starring Elena Solovey

A Slave of Love

A Slave of Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-09-27

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Soviet Union

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (934 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Fridrikh Gorenshteyn

Andrey Konchalovskiy

Fullplot:

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?

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano

An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1977-09-05

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Soviet Union

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (1800 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Aleksandr Adabashyan

Anton Chekhov (play)

Nikita Mikhalkov

Fullplot:

Early in the 20th century, family and friends gather at the country estate of a general's widow, Anna Petrovna. Sofia, the new wife of Anna's step-son, recognizes Misha, the brother-in-law of one of the widow's admirers: a few years before, they had been idealistic lovers and now she can't believe he has settled for a dim wife and a job as a teacher. Amidst parlor games and idle talk of women's rights and peasants' capabilities, Sofia and Misha rekindle their love. Will they flaunt convention, abandon families, and run away to pursue lost dreams? Rescue comes from an unexpected place.

Oblomov

Oblomov

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-09-08

Languages:

Russian

Countries:

Soviet Union

Runtime:

140 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (1373 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Aleksandr Adabashyan (screenplay)

Ivan Goncharov (novel)

Nikita Mikhalkov (screenplay)

Fullplot:

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov lives in a flat with his older servant, Zakhar. He sleeps much of the day, dreaming of his childhood on his parents' estate. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle whenever he's in the city, and Oblomov's life changes when Stoltz introduces him to Olga, lovely and cultured. When Stoltz leaves for several months, Oblomov takes a country house near Olga's, and she determines to change him: to turn him into a man of society, action, and culture. Soon, Olga and Oblomov are in love; but where, in the triangle, does that leave Stoltz?

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