''The Pokrovsky Gate'' (russian: Покровские ворота, Pokrovskiye Vorota) is a 1982 Soviet

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produced for television by

Mosfilm Mosfilm (russian: Мосфильм, ''Mosfil’m'' ) is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output inclu ...

. It was directed by

Mikhail Kozakov Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov (in Russian: Михаил Михайлович Козаков) (14 October 1934, Leningrad – 22 April 2011, Ramat Gan) was a Soviet, Russian and Israeli film and theatre director and actor. Biography Early life Mik ...

and stars

Oleg Menshikov Oleg Evgenyevich Menshikov, PAR (russian: Оле́г Евге́ньевич Ме́ньшиков, link=no; born 8 November 1960) is a Russian actor, theatre director and occasional singer. He is the current artistic director of the Yermolova Thea ...

Leonid Bronevoy Leonid Sergeyevich Bronevoy (russian: Леони́д Серге́евич Бронево́й; December 17, 1928 – December 9, 2017) was a Soviet and Russian actor. Though primarily a stage actor in the Lenkom Theatre, Bronevoy also made occasion ...

, and

Inna Ulyanova Inna Ivanovna Ulyanova (russian: Инна Ивановна Ульянова; June 30, 1934 – June 9, 2005) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, singer and comic character roles, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989), winner of the State ...

. The screenplay is based on a 1974 stage play by

Leonid Zorin Leonid Genrikhovich Zorin (russian: Леонид Генрихович Зорин; 3 November 1924 – 31 March 2020) was an Azerbaijani playwright. He was born in Baku, Soviet Union, and studied at Azerbaijan University and at the Maxim Gorky Lite ...

. Featured in the film are three songs written and performed by renowned " bard"

Bulat Okudzhava Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (russian: link=no, Булат Шалвович Окуджава; ka, ბულატ ოკუჯავა; hy, Բուլատ Օկուջավա; May 9, 1924 – June 12, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian poet, writer, musici ...

: "Chasovye Lyubvi" ("Sentries of Love"), "Zhivopistsy" ("Painters"), and "Pesenka ob Arbate" ("Ditty about

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"). The title refers to a

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Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...

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near which the film's main characters reside.

Plot

The story takes place in the 1950s. Konstantin “Kostik” Romin (

) has come to Moscow to study

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and is staying with kindly aunt Alisa (), who lives in a "

communal apartment Communal apartments (singular: russian: коммунальная квартира, ''kommunal'naya kvartira'', slang. ''kommunalka'') appeared in the Soviet Union following the October Revolution of 1917. The term ''communal apartments'' is a produ ...

" building there. His life soon becomes intertwined with those of the other residents. Among them are Margarita Pavlovna (

) and both her former husband Lev Khobotov ( Anatoly Ravikovich), a publisher of foreign poetry, and her new beau, World War II veteran and engraver-turned-teacher Savva Ignatevich (

Viktor Bortsov Viktor Andreyevich Bortsov (russian: Виктор Андреевич Борцов; June 14, 1934 in Orenburg, USSR – May 20, 2008 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet/Russian theatrical and cinema actor. He was a People's Artist of RSFSR. Bortsov ...

). The main plot revolves around the congenial Khobotov’s attempts to find happiness with newfound love Lyudochka (

Yelena Koreneva Yelena Alekseyevna Koreneva (russian: Еле́на Алексе́евна Ко́ренeва; born October 3, 1953, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, writer, film director and screenwriter. Yelena Koreneva starred in more th ...

), while constantly being

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ed by the controlling Margarita. Another tenant is musical comedian Arkady Velyurov (

), who is trying to revive his faltering career and escape from his own loneliness. He has become enamored of a young competitive swimmer, Svetlana (

Tatyana Dogileva Tatyana Anatoliyevna Dogileva (russian: Татья́на Анато́льевна До́гилева; born 27 February 1957) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, Meritorious Artist of Russia (1989), and People's Artist of Russia (2000) ...

), who rebuffs his advances but takes a fancy to the opportunistic Kostik. Kostik finds his own

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, RitaA diminutive form of "Margarita", a source of some irony; when she introduces herself to a bewildered Khobotov as "Margarita", Kostik interjects "Rita! RI-TA!" (), for whom he decides to forsake his

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lifestyle. In the end he becomes the catalyst for both Khobotov and Velyurov to find some measure of happiness: the former elopes with Lyudochka with the help of Kostik's pal Savransky, and the latter is elated that Svetlana attends one of his concerts in response to a telegram Kostik had urged him to send.

Main idea of the film

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Gorky Street towards Kremlin II.
The main action of the picture takes place in 1956-1957. Quotation about the movie:

Cast

Other parts

Rimma Markova Rimma Vasilievna Markova (russian: Римма Васильевна Маркова; 3 March 1925 – 15 January 2015) was a Russian film actress. She was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1994, whereas her younger brother Leonid Markov was nam ...

as doctor *

Igor Dmitriev Igor Borisovich Dmitriev (russian: И́горь Бори́сович Дми́триев) (29 May 1927 – 26 January 2008) was a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actor who specialized in playing aristocratic characters in costume productions ...

as Gleb Nikolaevich Orlovich * Natalia Krachkovskaya as Olga Yanovna Soyeva *Mikhail Kazakov as Konstantin Romin, after 25 years *

Emmanuil Geller Emanuel may refer to: * Emanuel (name), a given name and surname (see there for a list of people with this name) * Emanuel School, Australia, Sydney, Australia * Emanuel School, Battersea, London, England * Emanuel (band), a five-piece rock ban ...

as Savelich (voiced by Georgy Vitsin) * Sofya Pilyavskaya as aunt Alisa

References

External links

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Пьесу легендарного драматурга покажут в московском театре
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