''A Lover's Romance'' or ''Romance for Lovers'' () is a 1974 Soviet
musical
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romantic drama
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directed by
Andrei Konchalovsky
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.
Plot
Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the
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and Tania waits for his return. Sergei's division is abandoned in favor of helping local residents in distress. During the operation, his armored personnel gets carried into the sea. His relatives receive a notice of his death. Tanya's loving childhood friend, a hockey player, helps her to cope with misfortune and she marries him.
But it turned out that Sergei did not perish. He, together with a wounded friend he saved, are found on a deserted island after a long winter. Back home, Sergei learns that Tanya has married another. Unable to accept the loss of his beloved, Sergei dies; but this death is a symbolic and emotional one, not physical. Sergei continues to live a normal life without shock and strong distress, meets another girl, marries her, has a child. In the finale there is a spiritual rebirth of the hero.
Alexander Gradsky
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Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (; born ''Smoktunovich'', 28 March 19253 August 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990.
Early life
Smo ...
as Trumpeter (vocals by Vladimir Siskin)
*Elizaveta Solodova as Sergei's mother
*
Iya Savvina
Iya Sergeyevna Savvina (; 2 March 1936 – 27 August 2011) was a Soviet film actress who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.
as Tanya's mother
*
Vladimir Konkin
Vladimir Alekseyevich Konkin (, born 19 August 1951, Saratov, USSR) is a Soviet/Russian cinema and theatre actor, who appeared in 45 films.
as Sergei's younger brother
*
Aleksandr Zbruyev
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Selected filmography
* ''My Younger Brother'' (1962) as Dimka Denisov
* ''A Span of Earth'' (1964) as Alek ...
Nikolai Grinko
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Nikolai Grinko was born on 22 May 1920Ivan Ryzhov as Vasiliy
*Alexander Samoilov as Sergei's middle brother
*Ekaterina Mazurova as Tanya's grandmother
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