Five Evenings (1979)
Based on the play of the same name by Aleksandr Volodin "Five Evenings". The end of the 1950s. Aleksandr Petrovich Ilyin travels to the city where he lived before the war. Visiting the telephone operator Zoya, he sees a familiar house through the window and decides to go there for only fifteen minutes. So Aleksandr gets into a communal apartment, where the love of his youth Tamara Vasilyevna lives. They met twenty years ago and fell in love, but the war separated them. Now Ilyin and Tamara Vasilyevna met again, and love broke out with renewed vigor...
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
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Lyudmila Gurchenko as Tamara Vasilyevna |
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Stanislav Lyubshin as Aleksandr Petrovich Ilyin |
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Valentina Telichkina as Zoya |
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Larisa Kuznetsova as Katya |
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Igor Nefyodov as Slava |
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Alexander Adabashyan as Timofeyev |
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Olga Nikolayeva as episode |
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Naum Kanarsky as episode |
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Nina Ter-Osipyan as episode |
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Sergey Lobankov as episode |
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Lyudmila Gajlikovskaya as episode |
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Inna Vykhodtseva as episode (uncredited) |
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Valentin Kulik as episode (uncredited) |
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Vladimir Salnikov as episode (uncredited) |
| Directing | Nikita Mikhalkov | Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Maya Abar-Baranovskaya | Costume Design |
| Art | Aleksandr Samulekin | Production Design |
| Camera | Pavel Lebeshev | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Nikita Mikhalkov | Writer |
| Editing | Eleonora Praksina | Editor |
| Writing | Alexander Adabashyan | Writer |
| Writing | Aleksandr Volodin | Theatre Play |
| Art | Alexander Adabashyan | Production Design |
| Writing | Yuli Kim | Lyricist |
| Costume & Make-Up | E. Shadrina | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Camera | L. Kapustina | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Anatoliy Vasilyev | Assistant Camera |
| Lighting | Sergey Shebeko | Lighting Artist |
| Camera | A. Pashvykin | Still Photographer |
| Writing | O. Kozlova | Script Editor |
| Sound | Minna Blank | Music Editor |
| Production | Willie Geller | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Vladimir Fridman | First Assistant Director |
| Camera | B. Yelyan | First Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Eduard Gimpel | First Assistant Camera |
| Costume & Make-Up | N. Minayeva | Makeup & Hair |
| Visual Effects | D. Pletnikov | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Yuriy Chekmaryov | VFX Supervisor |
| Directing | A. Tsvetnova | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Anatoliy Romanenko | Assistant Director |
| Directing | S. Kundel | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Mikhail Solodukhin | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Bozhena Maslennikova | Colorist |
| Sound | Ekaterina Popova-Evans | Sound Director |