Eldar RIAZANOV
Эльдар РЯЗАНОВ
Eldar RIAZANOV
USSR, 1984, 145mn 
Colour, fiction
A Cruel Romance
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Жестокий романс

 

 Romance cruelle

 zhestokiy romans

 
Directed by : Eldar RIAZANOV (Эльдар РЯЗАНОВ)
Writing credits : Eldar RIAZANOV (Эльдар РЯЗАНОВ)
 
Cast
Sergey ARTSIBASHEV (Сергей АРЦИБАШЕВ)
Borislav BRONDUKOV (Борислав БРОНДУКОВ) ...Ivan
Georgi BURKOV (Георгий БУРКОВ) ...Robinson
Alisa FREINDLIKH (Алиса ФРЕЙНДЛИХ)
Larisa GUZEYEVA (Лариса ГУЗЕЕВА)
Andrey MIAGKOV (Андрей МЯГКОВ)
Nikita MIKHALKOV (Никита МИХАЛКОВ) ...Paratov
Aleksandr PANKRATOV-CHERNY (Александр ПАНКРАТОВ-ЧЕРНЫЙ)
Aleksey PETRENKO (Алексей ПЕТРЕНКО)
Viktor PROSKURIN (Виктор ПРОСКУРИН)
Yuri SARANTSEV (Юрий САРАНЦЕВ)
Yevgeni TSYMBAL (Евгений ЦЫМБАЛ)
Olga VOLKOVA (Ольга ВОЛКОВА)
 
Cinematography : Vadim ALISOV (Вадим АЛИСОВ)
Production design : Aleksandr_2 BORISOV (Александр_2 БОРИСОВ)
Music : Andrey PETROV (Андрей ПЕТРОВ)
Sound : Semyon LITVINOV (Семён ЛИТВИНОВ)
Produced by : Leonid VERESHCHAGIN (Леонид ВЕРЕЩАГИН)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 22 millions of spectators
Release date in Russia : 23/11/1984
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb, Kinopoisk

Awards :
Grand prix au festival de New Delhi, 1985

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Image Entertainment
Editor : Ruscico. 2001.
Langues : RU EN FR - Sous-titres : RU EN FR DE NL ES IT PT JP HE CS ZH AR
Bonus : Commentaires du réalisateur, interviews de V. Alissov et L. Gouzeeva, biographie de A. Ostrovski, Extrait de La Fille sans dot

Plot synopsis
The film is based on the play “A Dowerless Girl” by the prominent 19th-century Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky.
The beautiful Larissa Ogudalova, daughter of an impoverished, widowed noblewoman, living in a small town on the Volga, is madly in love with Sergei Sergeyevich Paratov. He reciprocates the girl’s feelings as long as it suits his purposes. Paratov keeps secret his engagement to another girl and just passes time with Larissa. At the climactic moment, when the girl is expecting him to explain himself, he leaves town to go inspect his estate. At the same time, Larissa is being proposed to by Karandyshev, whom she despises. Starring as Paratov is the famous actor and director Nikita Mikhalkov. The film is enriched with a lot of beautiful music, with romances which had been written expressly for this motion picture and became very popular after the release of the film.
Source : www.ruscico.com
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Dix films soviétiques sous-estimés à regarder en ligne gratuitement, Alexandra GOUZEVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2024
Romance cruelle d'Eldar Riazanov Un film «librement inspiré de ...» La Fille sans dot Réflexions sur Alexandre Ostrovski au cinéma, Anna JOURAVLIOVA, Vsevolod NEKRASSOV, Maria-Luisa BONAQUE, La Revue russe N°56, 2021, 2021
La Fille sans dot d’Ostrovski vue par Riazanov : une Romance cruelle , Lucie KEMPF, hal.archives-ouvertes.fr, 2019
Une romance cruelle – Drame russe (1984) [Eldar Riazanov], meetrussia.online, 2019
Romance cruelle [1984, dee Eldar RIAZANOV], Marie REYNIER, datchakalina.com, 2018
Cinq films cultes d’Eldar Riazanov, Oleg KRASNOV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2015
Изящная модернизация О фильме Жестокий романс, Геннадий МАСЛОВСКИЙ, chapaev.media, 1985
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Rétrospective Eldar Riazanov au Centre Spirituel et Culturel Orthodoxe Russe, Paris (France), 2020
- Soirées du cinéma russe de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France), 2019
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2019
- Russian Film Festival in Niort, Niort (France), 2018
- Europe around Europe, Paris (France), 2016
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2016
- Marseille Russian Film Festival in Toursky, Marseille (France), 2016
- Festival Rivages-Russie-Evénements, Nantes (France), 2016
- Russian film festival in Ajaccio, Ajaccio (France), 2016
- Carthage Film Festival, Carthage (Tunisia), 2016
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2013
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2013
- Festival de cinéma russe au Centre Wallonie Bruxelles de Kinshasa, Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo), 2012
- Cycle de cinéma soviétique à la Cinémathèque d'Alger, Algiers (Algeria), 2011
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2008
- Russian films in the cinema Arlequin, Paris (France), 2007
- Russian films in the cinema Arlequin, Paris (France), 2005
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2002

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