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Vokzal dlya Dvoikh

• 10.13.09
  Party-Time
  Barbara Brylska, Beregis Avtomobilya, Eldar Ryazanov, Ironiya Sudba, Semnadcat' mgnovenij vesny, Sluzhebnyiy Roman, Voditel dlya Very, Vokzal dlya Dvoikh (1)

  I still haven't worked up enough nerve to finish watching Voditel dlya Very. Instead I took in something easy and watched parts of Ironya Sudba. I've watched it a few times already, but this time something caught my eye just a few seconds from the end of Part One. In most of the Eldar Ryazanov films I've seen, he works something about western communication technology into the film. In Vokzal dlya Voikh (1982) it was a VCR player. In Sluzhebnyy roman it was a built-in 8-track player in a car. ...
  
  
• 03.21.09
  Gulag hair
  Oleg Basilashvili, Vokzal dlya Dvoikh (4)

  The film Railway Station for Two begins and ends with a scene in a Siberian gulag. The above screenshot is from the opening scene. Excellent gulag photography in this film, btw. I love the above scene -- not as a place to be, of course, but as an excellent portrayal of a northern winter in such a setting. In Anna Lawton's 1992 book, "Kinoglasnost: Soviet Cinema in our Time", she says this about the movie: Because of a car accident caused by his wife -- a materialistic woman representative of the nouveau riche ...
  
  
• 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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