Encore, Once More Encore!
| Encore, Once More Encore! | |
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| Directed by | Pyotr Todorovsky |
| Starring |
Valentin Gaft Irina Rozanova Yevgeny Mironov Elena Yakovleva Stanislav Govorukhin |
Release dates | 1992 |
Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Encore, Once More Encore! (Russian: Анкор, ещё анкор!) is a 1992 post-war eccentric tragi-comedy set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties.
The film has won 5 awards, including The Best Film Nika Award, 1993.
Plot summary
In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile, accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.
Lt. Poletaev (Yevgeny Mironov) is an irrepressible character. Even the grim character of service in the Red Army following World War II isn't enough to dampen his spirits. Instead, he keeps things lively by accompanying the base's chorus on his accordion, and by attempting to get women to join the chorus. He succeeds in both his quests. Not only that, but one of the woman singers (Irina Rozanova) and he have a nice little romantic spark going. It's too bad that she's the live-in lover of his boss, Col. Vinogradov (Valentin Gaft).
"I made a film about love. About a Lieutenant, who fell in love with a Colonel's young and beautiful wife. The Colonel' s got two wives: the first from the pre-war times and the second whom he met in the war and fell head over heels. Pangs of conscience, painful doubts, sidelong glances. Only shot in the head can cleave this knot.", says director Pyotr Todorovsky.