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Do Not Part with Your Beloved
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Wikipedia article
'Do Not Part with Your Beloved' or is a Soviet romantic drama, directed by Pavel Arsenov in 1980. The film is based on the eponymous play written in 1971 by Alexander Volodin. The picture was remade in 2014 as 'Another Year' by director Oksana Bychkova.
Plot
Divorce proceedings is the last and the most difficult act in the life of any family. In a civil court there is a continuous bustle: for various reasons people who have recently loved each other and who have built their lives together, are forced to prove and explain to the judge that nothing binds them together anymore. Family life, with all its joys and sorrows, is put on public display and for discussion which is always agonizingly painful and embarrassing ...
Young spouses Mitya and Katya are participants in one of the tragic stories. Katya provokes a fierce jealousy from Mitya's side for sleeping over at her classmate Vadim's place. Mitya torments himself, his wife and Vadim, he endlessly asks the same question - did Katya cheat on him or not?
After a series of endless scandals, Katya and Mitya get divorced. But attempts to settle their lives individually lead to nothing. Despite the parting they continue to love each other ardently, although pride does not allow Katya or Mitya to take the first step forward. The finale of the story remains open: Katya is admitted to a psychiatric hospital for experiencing a nervous breakdown, during Mitya's visit she gets into a hysterical fit, and while sobbing she cries of her love in the arms of her ex-husband ...
Cast
* Aleksandr Abdulov Mitya Lavrov
* Irina Alfyorova Katya Lavrova
* Lyudmila Drebneva Irina, Mitya's girlfriend
* Rufina Nifontova judge
* Boris Shcherbakov Vadim, photographer, Katya's classmate
* Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev Homak, Vadim's neighbor
* Georgi Margvelashvili Dato Kirilashvili, divorcing husband
* Valentina Grushina Larisa Kirilashvili, divorcing wife
* Klara Luchko Larisa's mother
* Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov Nikulin, divorcing husband
* Yekaterina Vasilyeva Nikulina, divorcing wife with son
* Sergei Nikonenko Shumilov, drunkard, divorcing husband
* Ekaterina Voronina Shumilova, divorcing wife
* Yuriy Nazarov Mironov, divorcing husband
* Larisa Luzhina Mironova, divorcing wife
* Georgi Yepifantsev Belov, divorcing husband
* Lyubov Polekhina Belova, wife refusing to divorce her husband
References
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