Directed by:
Mikhail AgranovichCinematography:
Mikhail AgranovichComposer:
Вадим БиберганCast:
Oleg Yankovskiy, Ekaterina Sergeevna Vasileva, Irina Kupchenko, Natalya Shchukina, Ivan YankovskiyPlots(1)
The title of the work on which the film is based, While She Died, defines the vagaries and mood of this simple drama dealing with late love. An ill mother doesn’t want to die knowing that her already grown daughter will become an old maid. To put her mother’s soul at ease, the daughter asks a man who accidentally knocks at their door if she can introduce him to her mother as her date. This seems all the more reasonable as he has arrived holding a bouquet intended for his much younger sweetheart living next door. The man is persuaded. The dying mother’s aristocratic manner soon so enchants him that, to the daugh-ter’s displeasure, he begins to act his role with enthusiasm. His next visit, interrupted by telephone messages from his spurned girlfriend, takes place in an atmosphere of anticipated excitement. The mother visibly revives, the daughter panics and thinks up a quick solution: she asks a local salesgirl to pretend to be her illegitimate child. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Oleg Yankovskiy
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
The Shooting Party (1978)
The Mirror (1975)
Ekaterina Sergeevna Vasileva
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Dvadtsat dney bez voyny (1976)
Mamy (2012)
Core of the World (2018)
Irina Kupchenko
Austria
Best movies:
Siberiade (1979)
Uncle Vanya (1970)
A Nest of Gentry (1969)
Natalya Shchukina
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Něbesa obětovannyje (1991)
Intergirl (1989)
Ivan Yankovskiy
Best movies:
The World Champion (2021)
No borders (2015)
Tekst (2019)