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The Pokrovsky Gate
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Wikipedia article
'The Pokrovsky Gate' is a 1982 Soviet comedy film produced for television by Mosfilm. It was directed by Mikhail Kozakov and stars Oleg Menshikov, Leonid Bronevoy, and Inna Ulyanova. The screenplay is based on a 1974 stage play by Leonid Zorin.
Featured in the film are three songs written and performed by renowned "bard" Bulat Okudzhava: "Chasovye Lyubvi" ("Sentries of Love"), "Zhivopistsy" ("Painters"), and "Pesenka ob Arbate" ("Ditty about Arbat").http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/1670793/
The title refers to a square on Moscow's Boulevard Ring near which the film's main characters reside.See [http://www.hello-online.ru/content.php?contid=160 Moscow Boulevard Ring: the Prechistensky Gate] for a historical perspective. An illustration of the historical Pokrovsky Gates in old Moscow can be seen here: [http://pokrovka.narod.ru/]
Plot
The story takes place in the 1950s. Konstantin Kostik Romin (Oleg Menshikov) has come to Moscow to study history and is staying with kindly aunt Alisa , who lives in a "communal apartment" building there. His life soon becomes intertwined with those of the other residents. Among them are Margarita Pavlovna (Inna Ulyanova) and both her former husband Lev Khobotov (Anatoly Ravikovich), a publisher of foreign poetry, and her new beau, World War II veteran and engraver-turned-teacher Savva Ignatevich (Viktor Bortsov).
The main plot revolves around the congenial Khobotovs attempts to find happiness with newfound love Lyudochka (Yelena Koreneva), while constantly being thwarted by the controlling Margarita. Another tenant is musical comedian Arkady Velyurov (Leonid Bronevoy), who is trying to revive his faltering career and escape from his own loneliness. He has become enamored of a young competitive swimmer, Svetlana (Tatyana Dogileva), who rebuffs his advances but takes a fancy to the opportunistic Kostik.
Kostik finds his own love interest, RitaA diminutive form of "Margarita", a source of some irony; when she introduces herself to a bewildered Khobotov as "Margarita", Kostik interjects "Rita! RI-TA!" , for whom he decides to forsake his playboy lifestyle. In the end he becomes the catalyst for both Khobotov and Velyurov to find some measure of happiness: the former elopes with Lyudochka with the help of Kostik's pal Savransky, and the latter is elated that Svetlana attends one of his concerts in response to a telegram Kostik had urged him to send.
Main idea of the film
File:Moscow 1957 - Gorky Street towards Kremlin II.jpg|(3) Moscow 1957.
Gorky Street towards Kremlin II.
The main action of the picture takes place in 1956-1957.
Quotation about the movie:
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Cast
Other parts
*Rimma Markova as doctor
*Igor Dmitriev as Gleb Nikolaevich Orlovich
*Natalia Krachkovskaya as Olga Yanovna Soyeva
*Mikhail Kazakov as Konstantin Romin, after 25 years
*Emmanuil Geller as Savelich (voiced by Georgy Vitsin)
*Sofya Pilyavskaya as aunt Alisa
References
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