Osenniy marafon

02.22.09

Visitors
Kalina Krasnaya, Oleg Basilashvili, Osenniy marafon, Vasili Shukshin, Yevgeny Leonov (0)
In this scene from Osenniy Marafon, the character played by Yevgeny Leonov (on the right) walks in on Buzykin (Oleg Basilashvili) and his guest, Bill Hansen. Leonov's character doesn't even notice Bill until he says two words in Russian (not his first language). Then there is a long silence while Leonov looks at him suspiciously, followed by an introduction (shown above). Leonov then asks, "Does he understand Russian?" Well, I thought it was funny. Bill knows more Russian than I do, but there was something about the way he sounded when he opened his mouth that made clear ...
02.18.09

Pedestrians vs drivers
Oleg Basilashvili, Osenniy marafon, Vokzal dlya Dvoikh (0)
The van driver in this 1979 movie is angry at Buzykin, the character played by Oleg Basilashvili, who was preoccupied with problems caused by the competing attentions needed by his wife and his girlfriend. Buzykin wasn't watching where he was going, and got nicked by the van. The subtitle is of angry words from the driver. It's interesting in that three years later, Basilashvili was in another movie in which this same standard of justice was the premise. In "Vokzal dlya dvoikh," his wife hit a pedestrian in the dark. Since the pedestrian wasn't drunk, ...

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