''I Loved You'' (russian: Я вас любил…, Ya vas lyubil...), is a 1968 Soviet

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by

Ilia Frez Ilya Abramovich Frez (russian: Илья Абрамович Фрэз; 20 August 1909, Roslavl – 22 June 1994, Moscow), PAU, was a Soviet film director primarily known for his films for younger viewers. Among his films was the internationally pop ...

and written by Mikhail Lvovsky. Produced by the

Gorky Film Studio Gorky Film Studio (russian: Киностудия имени Горького) is a film studio in Moscow, Russian Federation. By the end of the Soviet Union, Gorky Film Studio had produced more than 1,000 films. Many film classics were filmed a ...

, 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 (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

'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 as Lidia Nikolayevna, teacher of literature *

Yevgeniy Vesnik Yevgeny Yakovlevich Vesnik (russian: Евге́ний Я́ковлевич Ве́сник; 15 January 1923 in Petrograd – 10 April 2009 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian actor. The son of Yakov Vesnik, the first director of the Kryvorizhstal p ...

as father * Vera Orlova as mother *

Natalia Dudinskaya Natalia Mikhailovna Dudinskaya (russian: Ната́лия Миха́йловна Дуди́нская; , in Kharkiv – 29 January 2003, in Saint Petersburg) was a Soviet prima ballerina who dominated the Kirov Ballet from the 1930s to the 1950 ...

as Zoya Pavlovna, ballet teacher

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 0062506 1968 films 1968 comedy films 1960s teen comedy films Russian teen comedy films Films directed by Ilya Frez Soviet teen comedy films 1960s Russian-language films