Late Meeting (1979)
The film takes place in Leningrad and Sverdlovsk, in 1970 and 1979. Arriving on a business trip from Sverdlovsk in the Lenfilm, engineer catapults Sergei Gushchin meets a young actress Natasha. She invites him to show Leningrad, but Gushchin and he knows the city - he served here during the war. They are looking for an excuse for further meetings, but he always finds a reason to not to meet with the woman who is many years younger than him and with whom he has fallen in love with. Natasha understands too that she loves this man, but Gushchin leaves, and not daring to associate with her fate. In the end he leaves and only returns to Leningrad nine years later and then he tries to find Natasha again.
Director: Vladimir Shredel
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Aleksey Batalov as Sergey Ivanovich Gushchin |
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Margarita Volodina as Maria Gushchina |
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Larisa Luppian as Natasha Proskurova |
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Tatyana Dogileva as Tanya Gushchina |
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Mikhail Gluzskiy as Pyotr Sviridonsky |
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Vladimir Tatosov as Vasily Mikhailovich Belyakov |
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Igor Efimov as Petya Basalayev |
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Tatjana Manevskaja as zhenshchina s rebonkom |
| Directing | Vladimir Shredel | Director |
| Writing | Yuriy Nagibin | Writer |
| Writing | Yuriy Nagibin | Short Story |
| Camera | Viktor Osennikov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Aleksandr Zachinyaev | Production Design |
| Art | Vasili Zachinyayev | Production Design |
| Sound | Eduard Bogushevsky | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Boris Yefimov | Sound Director |
| Sound | Irena Sergeyeva | Songs |
| Editing | S. Tarik | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | E. Astrova | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | I. Kolesnikova | Makeup Artist |
| Camera | Yuri Durinov | Camera Operator |
| Directing | N. Kharicheva | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Tatyana Kostina | Assistant Director |
| Directing | T. Filatova | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | Nikolay Banko | Assistant Camera |
| Sound | V. Klyuev | Sound Assistant |
| Writing | I. Duykova | Script Editor |
| Sound | I. Orlov | Music Editor |
| Production | Lidiya Slepneva | Executive Producer |