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Pyat vecherov

• 01.25.10
  Van Cliburn
  Pyat vecherov (0)

  I'm trying to figure out if this footage of Van Cliburn shown on the TV in Pyat Vecherov is really from his famous 1958 visit to Russia for the Tchaikowsky Competition, or if it's from some later visit in the 1960s. Nothing in the movie or the clip says outright that it is from 1958, but 1958 is a year that would fit the setting of the film. Here is a YouTube clip that contains some footage from 1958. Here is some from 1962. At first it seemed to me that the TV in the movie showed an older Van Cliburn than the ...
  
  
• 01.04.10
  Do the workers like you?
  Lyudmila Gurchenko, Pyat vecherov, Stanislav Lyubshin (0)

  To American ears, it's a bit strange for Tamara Vasilyevna (played by Ludmila Gerchenko) to be asking the question, "Do the workers like you?" It's not a strange thing to wonder about, but it's a strange thing to be asking an old boyfriend about, or to be asking almost anyone. If an American did get asked that question, the answer that Aleksandr Petrovich Ilyin (played by Stanislav Lyubshin) gave would be a likely response. Although slightly strange, I didn't think much about it until I got to the latest part of a book I've been reading, ...
  
  
• 12.28.09
  A good start for two careers
  Pyat vecherov, Rodnya (0)

  I especially enjoyed watching the two younger actors in Pyat Vecherov, almost more than the the two leads, Stanislav Lyubshin and Lyudmila Gurchenko. Larisa Kuznetsova plays Katya (above) and Igor Nefyodov plays Zoya (below). I went to IMDB to learn a little more about them. It looks like her role as Kyatya was the first of 20 performances in her career. The only other of her films I've seen is Rodnya, which we've just started to watch. I don't think she has made an appearance in what we've seen so far. His part in Pyat Vecherof was Igor Nefyodov's first, as well. ...
  
  
• 12.19.09
  Pyat vecherov
  Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikita Mikhalkov, Pyat vecherov, Stanislav Lyubshin (0)

  It was at this point in Five Evenings, before I got a good look at his face, that I suspected I had seen this guy before. It was the way he stood with his back straight, hands in his pockets, weight not quite balanced on both legs. It's a younger version of the same guy who had played Uncle Vova in Kin-Dza-Dza! I had to look up his name again. It's Stanislav Lyubshin. I didn't recognize Lyudmila Gurchenko from her posture, though. It was not until she showed this facial expression that I recognized her. I do try to ...
  
  

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