''Encore, Once More Encore!'' (russian: Анкор, ещё анкор!, Ankor, escho ankor!) is a 1992 post-war eccentric tragi-comedy set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. Release in the US took place October 10, 1992.
The film has won 5 awards, including The Best Film Nika Award, 1993.
Plot
In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured pace. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile, the accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.
Lt. Poletaev ( Yevgeny Mironov) is an irrepressible character. Even the grim nature of service in the Red Army following World War II isn't enough to dampen his spirits. Instead, he keeps things lively by accompanying the base's chorus on his accordion, and by attempting to get women to join the chorus. He succeeds in both his aims. Not only that, but he also has romantic chemistry with one of the female singers (
Irina Rozanova
Irina Yurievna Rozanova (russian: Ири́на Ю́рьевна Роза́нова; born 22 July 1961) is a Russian actress. She has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1985. In 2008 she was a member of the jury at the 30th ...
). Unfortunately for him, she is the live-in lover of his boss, Col. Vinogradov (
Valentin Gaft
Valentin Iosifovich Gaft (russian: Валенти́н Ио́сифович Гафт; 2 September 1935 – 12 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was People's Artist of the RSFSR (1984).
Biography Early life and education
Gaft was ...
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Cast
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Valentin Gaft
Valentin Iosifovich Gaft (russian: Валенти́н Ио́сифович Гафт; 2 September 1935 – 12 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was People's Artist of the RSFSR (1984).
Biography Early life and education
Gaft was ...
as Colonel Vinogradov
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Irina Rozanova
Irina Yurievna Rozanova (russian: Ири́на Ю́рьевна Роза́нова; born 22 July 1961) is a Russian actress. She has appeared in more than 80 films and television shows since 1985. In 2008 she was a member of the jury at the 30th ...
Sergey Nikonenko
Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko (russian: Серге́й Петрович Никоненко; born 16 April 1941 in Moscow) is a Russian actor. He performed in more than eighty films since 1961.
Selected filmography
* 1967
** ''The Red and the Whit ...
as Captain Ivan Kryukov
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Larisa Malevannaya
Larisa Ivanovna Malevannaya (russian: Лари́са Ива́новна Малева́нная) is a Russian film and theater actress, theater director, and writer.
Biography and career
Malevannaya was born on January 22, 1939, in the village of ...
as Vinogradov's wife
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Andrey Ilin
Andrey Yepifanovich Ilyin (russian: Андре́й Епифа́нович Ильи́н; born July 18, 1960, Gorky, RSFSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1993).Vladimir Ilyin as Captain Liкhovol, intendant
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Lyudmila Gnilova Lyudmila Vladimirovna Gnilova (russian: Людмила Владимировна Гнилова; born February 12, 1944) is a Russian and Soviet actress and voice actress. She was awarded as a Meritorious Artist (since 1982).
Biography
Starting f ...
as Barkhatova
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Stanislav Govorukhin
Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin (russian: Станислав Сергеевич Говорухин; 29 March 1936 – 14 June 2018) was a Soviet and Russian film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and politician. He was named People's Artis ...
as divisional commander
Production
"I made a film about love. About a Lieutenant, who fell in love with a Colonel's young and beautiful wife. The Colonel' s got two wives: the first from the pre-war times and the second whom he met in the war and fell head over heels. Pangs of conscience, painful doubts, sidelong glances. Only shot in the head can cleave this knot.", says director
Pyotr Todorovsky
Pyotr Yefimovich Todorovsky (russian: Пётр Ефи́мович Тодоро́вский, uk, Петро Юхимович Тодоровський, 26 August 1925 – 24 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter and cinematographe ...