Valery APANANSKY
Валерий АПАНАНСКИЙ
Valeri APANANSKI
USSR, 1976, 34mn 
fiction
To Laura's Tears
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На слёзы Лауры

 

 Aux larmes de Laura

 Na slozy Laury

 
Directed by : Valery APANANSKY (Валерий АПАНАНСКИЙ)
Production : Mosfilm
 

Plot synopsis
The village postman Semyon Penkin is famous in his village for knowing the poems of Pushkin and Lermontov by heart, as well as for impromptu poetic poems on given topics. Since school, he has been in love with Nastya Kruglikova and writes poetry to her in the manner of Petrarch’s sonnets, who dedicated them to his beloved Laura. Semyon has a rival, the hooligan Oleg Anokhin, whom Nastya prefers.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Festival of Archival Films (Formerly "Belye Stolby"), Moscow (Russia), 2023