Romance for Lovers

Romance for Lovers (1974)

RomanceDramaMusic

Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania waits for his return. Sergei's division is abandoned in favor of helping local residents in distress. During the operation, his armored personnel gets carried into the sea. His relatives receive a notice of his death. Tanya's loving childhood friend, a hockey player, helps her to cope with misfortune and she marries him. But it turned out that Sergei did not perish. He, together with a wounded friend he saved, are found on a deserted island after a long winter. Back home, Sergei learns that Tanya has married another. Unable to accept the loss of his beloved, Sergei dies; but this death is a symbolic and emotional one, not physical. Sergei continues to live a normal life without shock and strong distress, meets another girl, marries her, has a child. In the finale there is a spiritual rebirth of the hero.

Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Writer: Evgeniy Grigorev

Casts

	Yevgeni Kindinov as Sergei Nikitin
	Yelena Koreneva as Tanya
	Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as Trumpeter
	Irina Kupchenko as Lyuda
	Elizaveta Solodova as Sergei's mother
	Iya Savvina as Tanya's mother
	Vladimir Konkin as Sergei's youngest brother
	Aleksandr Zbruev as Igor Volgin
	Roman Gromadskiy as Albatross
	Mykola Hrynko as Vice-Admiral
	Ivan Ryzhov as Vasily Vasilyevich
	Aleksandr Samoylov as Sergei's middle brother
	Valentina Ananina as
	I. Bragina as
	N. Birko as
	Ekaterina Veresova as
	Anatoly Vedyonkin as
	Elena Volskaya as
	Larisa Vadko as
	Nikolay Glazkov as
	Anatoli Golik as
	Yevgeny Gurov as
	Sergei Evseev as
	Aleksei Zadachin as
	Irina Korablyova as
	S. Lyushina as
	Valery Lysenkov as
	Yekaterina Mazurova as
	Daniil Netrebin as
	N. Pastukhova as
	Vladimir Protasenko as
	Leonid Sturov as
	Georgios Sovchis as
	Nina Satova as
	Viktor Uralsky as
	Grigory Tsitrinyak as
	Lyudmila Krasheninnikova as (uncredited)
	Kirill Vats as (uncredited)
	Nina Zakharova as (uncredited)
	Vladimir Kapustin as (uncredited)
	Evgeniya Kiryakova as (uncredited)
	Andrei Konchalovsky as (uncredited)
	Aleksandr Lukyanov as (uncredited)
	Viktor Markin as (uncredited)
	Yuriy Mochalov as (uncredited)
	Sergei Nikolaev as (uncredited)
	Maryana Polteva as (uncredited)
	Viktor Rzhevskiy as (uncredited)
	Nikolay Smorchkov as (uncredited)
	Vyacheslav Starshinov as (uncredited)
	Valentina Ushakova as (uncredited)
	Semyon Farada as (uncredited)
	Lev Frichinsky as (uncredited)
	Aleksandr Yakushev as (uncredited)
	Oleg Tsarkov as (uncredited)

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