Brief Encounters (film)

Brief Encounters

Original Russian film poster
Directed by Kira Muratova
Written by Kira Muratova
Leonid Zhukhovitsky
Starring Nina Ruslanova
Vladimir Vysotskiy
Kira Muratova
Yelena Bazilskaya
Olga Vikland
Aleksey Glazyrin
Music by Oleg Karavaychuk
Cinematography Gennadi Karyuk
Edited by O. Kharakova
Production
company
Release date
 1967
Running time
 91 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

Brief Encounters (Russian: Короткие встречи, translit. Korotkiye vstrechi) is a 1967 Soviet romantic drama directed by Kira Muratova.

A woman and her maid are unknowingly both in love with the same man, played by singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky. Kira Muratova's debut feature film was banned by Soviet censors for 20 years before getting an official premiere during glasnost.

Plot

After leaving their native village, Nadia and her friend travel to the big city. Along the way, Nadia gets a job in a teashop and meets Maxim, a charming and educated young geologist of whom she becomes enamored. However, Maxim already has a woman he loves, local district committee leader Valya. When Nadia leaves the tea shop and ends up in Valya's town, the latter hires her as a maid and puts her up at her house, both of them unaware that they have Maxim in common.

Cast


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