''Melodies of a White Night'' (russian: Мелодии белой ночи, Melodii beloy nochi; ja, 白夜の調べ) is a 1976

romantic drama Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey ...

directed by Sergei Solovyov.

Plot

A Japanese pianist (

Komaki Kurihara is a Japanese stage and film actress. She has appeared in 30 films since 1967. She starred in the 1974 film ''Sandakan No. 8'', which was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1975 she was a member of the jury at the 9th ...

) travels to the Soviet Union to better understand the country's composers' production. She falls in love with Soviet composer Ilya (

Yury Solomin Yury Mefodievich Solomin (russian: Ю́рий Мефо́диевич Соло́мин; born June 18, 1935 in Chita) is a Soviet and Russian actor and director who has been art director of the Maly Theatre in Moscow since 1988. Minister of Culture ...

), who has lost his parents in the

Siege of Leningrad The siege of Leningrad (russian: links=no, translit=Blokada Leningrada, Блокада Ленинграда; german: links=no, Leningrader Blockade; ) was a prolonged military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the Soviet city of L ...

and also his wife during childbirth. The lovers enjoy Leningrad's white summer nights, and Ilya starts composing a piano concert inspired by Yuko. A couple of years later, they meet again in Japan in Kyoto, where Ilya is conducting his piano concert, and Yuko is the soloist. Ilya finds out that Yuko is a widow and starts to experience feelings of guilt.

Cast

- Yuko, Japanese pianist *

- Ilya, composer-conductor *

Aleksandr Zbruyev Aleksandr Viktorovich Zbruyev (russian: Александр Викторович Збруев; born 31 March 1938, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is Soviet and Russian theatrical and cinema actor. Selected filmography * ''My Younger Brother'' (1962) as ...

- Fedor, Ilya's brother, painter *Sergey Polezhaev - musician, teacher *Yelizaveta Solodova - foster mother of Ilya and Fedor, music teacher *Andrey Leontovich - Alyosha, son of Ilya *Seiji Miyaguchi

References

External links

* Soviet romantic drama films Japanese romantic drama films 1976 romantic drama films Mosfilm films 1976 multilingual films Toho films Japan–Soviet Union relations Japanese multilingual films Soviet multilingual films 1976 films 1970s Japanese films {{romantic-drama-film-stub