The Theme (1979)
In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that here people live very differently than in the world familiar to him. By chance, he witnesses someone else's love drama - intellectual Sasha and dissident Andrei who is leaving for America. He is shocked by this complex conflict and fictitious problems, where there is no place for either melancholy or depression. In this situation, the hero decides to go to Moscow...
Director: Gleb Panfilov
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Mikhail Ulyanov as Kim Yesenin |
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Inna Churikova as Sasha Nikolayeva |
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Yevgeni Vesnik as Pashchin |
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Yevgeniya Nechayeva as Mariya Aleksandrovna |
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Sergey Nikonenko as Sinitsyn |
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Natalya Seleznyova as Svetlana |
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Stanislav Lyubshin as 'Bearded' |
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Tolya Panfilov as |
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Galina Ilyina as |
| Directing | Gleb Panfilov | Director |
| Writing | Gleb Panfilov | Writer |
| Writing | Aleksandr Chervinsky | Writer |
| Camera | Leonid Kalashnikov | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tatyana Razumovskaya | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tamara Gaidukova | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Marksen Gaukhman-Sverdlov | Production Design |
| Editing | Polina Skachkova | Editor |
| Sound | Vadim Bibergan | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Evgeniya Indlina | Sound Director |
| Sound | Yevgeniy Bazanov | Sound Director |
| Directing | N. Abramenko | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Sergei Naugolnykh | Camera Operator |
| Writing | Irina Sergievskaya | Script Editor |
| Writing | A. Svobodin | Script Editor |
| Production | Vladimir Repnikov | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Tolya Panfilov | Lyricist |