''I Loved You'' (), is a 1968 Soviet

comedy film The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...

directed by Ilia Frez and written by Mikhail Lvovsky. Produced by the

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, it premiered on 29 January 1968Я Вас любил...
at www.kino-teatr.ru and, with 21,3 million viewers, became one of the Soviet box office leaders of that year. The film was internationally popular in Eastern Europe. The film's topic was awakening romantic feelings in a group of Russian teenagers.Peter Rollberg - Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema 2008 - Page 230 0810862689 FREZ, IL'IA ABRAMOVICH in the same institute's Directing Department, graduating in 1935. ... The director addressed the problems of a different age group in I Loved You (Ia vas liubil, 1967), a serious attempt to discuss the awakening of romantic feelings in teenagers."

Plot summary

15-year-old Kolya Golikov falls in love with Nadya Naumchenko, an aspiring teenage ballet dancer and a Choreography school student. Infatuated, he goes out of his way to impress her, among other things by perfume, cigarettes and his peculiar style of dancing too. Utter ridiculousness of his ways notwithstanding, Nadya seems to like the boy. Over-excited during the night walk, as the two approach the place she lives in, Kolya starts to behave towards her somewhat acquisitively. Taken aback, the girl declares herself to be totally disillusioned with him. "You do not seem interesting to me, not anymore!" she exclaims. Weeks pass. And Kolya, who's always been good at mathematics but bad at learning poems by heart, is so shattered by this fiasco as to impress his school examiners with passionate recital of "I Loved You...",

Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is conside ...

's famous paean to unrequited love. Autumn comes and it's time for the older boy, Zhora, to be conscripted. He decides to spend his last evening together with his friends and takes them all to the concert in the local theatre. There Kolya sees Nadya dancing on stage. He is awe-struck and enchanted again. Minutes later, behind the curtains Nadya learns about Zhora's company being there in the audience. "And... is Kolya there too?" she can't help asking, leaving the finale open.

Cast

*Viktor Perevalov as Kolya *Violetta Khusnulova as Nadya *Valeri Ryzhakov as Zhora *

Natalya Seleznyova Natalya Igorevna Seleznyova (; born 19 June 1945) is a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. Biography She first took the stage at the age of six, participating in the Russian Army Theatre, Red Army Theatre plays. Her notabl ...

as Lidia Nikolayevna, teacher of literature * Yevgeniy Vesnik as father * Vera Orlova as mother *

Natalia Dudinskaya Natalia Mikhailovna Dudinskaya (29 January 2003) was a Soviet prima ballerina who dominated the Kirov Ballet from the 1930s to the 1950s. Dudinskaya was born on , in Kharkiv. Her mother was , a Ukrainian and Russian ballerina who had been coa ...

as Zoya Pavlovna, ballet teacher

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* 1968 films 1968 comedy films 1960s teen comedy films 1968 romantic comedy films Films directed by Ilya Frez 1960s Soviet films 1960s Russian-language films Soviet teen comedy films Soviet romantic comedy films Russian-language romantic comedy films Soviet black-and-white films Gorky Film Studio films Films about ballet Films set in schools {{1960s-romantic-comedy-film-stub