The film "Love and Pigeons" reviews gathered mostly positive. In 1984, when he was released, it was one of the most successful paintings. A lyrical comedy based on the play of the same name by Vladimir Gurkin was shot by Vladimir Menshov. In this article, we will retell the plot of the picture, talk about the actors who performed the main roles, and share the impressions of the audience.
Creature
Soviet viewers immediately fell in love with the film Love and Pigeons. The reviews often noted that the plot came out very believable. Perhaps because the basis is a real story that happened in the small homeland of the playwright Gurkin in the Irkutsk region.
Filming took place in several places. For the bathing scene, Vasily and Raisa Zakharovna went to Batumi, the heroes are engaged in simulators in Essentuki. The villages where they filmed Love and Pigeons do not really exist. He worked on the main episodes in the summer in the city of Medvezhyegorsk in Karelia. The premiere in the Soviet Union took place on January 7, 1985.
Plot
The main character of the picture is the worker of the timber industry enterprise Vasily Kuzyakin. He lives in a village with his wife Nadezhda and three children. The eldest Luda was already leaving for the city, but returned back after breaking up with her husband, the middle son is the cheerful and carefree guy Lenka, the youngest is the schoolgirl Olya, her father’s favorite.
Vasily raises pigeons, spends all his free time with them. His wife believes this hobby is indulgence, swears that he buys expensive birds for a salary.
Kuzyakin's neighbors are Uncle Mitya and Baba Shura. Conflicts also constantly occur in their family. Uncle Mitya is a lover of drinking, and his wife is trying to keep it in tight rein, but she does not always succeed. The husband takes every opportunity to drink secretly from his wife. For example, arranges a wake for his wife, although she did not die.
Resort voucher
At work, Vasily gets an industrial injury. In compensation for the damage caused, he is entitled to a trip to the sea. On vacation, he met with the employee of the personnel department of the timber industry Raisa Zakharovna. Unlike Basil, she lives in the city, seems sublime and educated. She captivates a man with her exalted hobbies and unusual stories. They have an affair.
Returning from the resort, Vasily decides to leave the family to his new lover. He informs his wife and children about this in a letter. That evening, when the Kuzyakin family receives this news, Raisa Zakharovna visits them to talk with Vasily's wife. She hoped to find a common language and put things right in the world.
At first, Raisa appears to be an employee of the human resources department, without giving any details. Upset Hope herself begins to complain to her unfaithful husband, not suspecting that her lover is in front of her. When everything turns out, Vasily’s wife rushes at the guest with her fists. A battered one leaves with nothing. It is in this scene that the famous phrase “Lyuda, but, Lyudka” sounds, which immediately went to the people after the film was released.
Nadezhda is depressed, she does not understand why to live. Children are also offended by the father, the son who claims to be the one to kill him the most. Meanwhile, Vasily and Raisa Zakharovna do not have a joint life. A man leaves her, but they do not accept him at home.
Vasily is forced to settle in a hut on the banks of the river. After some time, Hope comes to him. She forgave. But, fearing Lenka and the gossip of fellow villagers, they decide to hide their renewed relationship. Two months meet secretly until it turns out that Nadezhda is pregnant. Vasily returns home on the day when his son enters the army.
Vasily Kuzyakin
Mikhailov in this picture got the main role. People's Artist of the RSFSR plays the worker of the timber industry Vasily Egorovich Kuzyakin, because of the resort romance of which the whole conflict took place.
An amazing story is associated with the film "Love and Pigeons" by Alexander Mikhailov. He almost died when filming an episode when he falls out of the door of his house right into the sea. He fell from the pier, under the water, divers undressed him, and he emerged in his shorts next to the heroine Gurchenko. In fact, I had to fall into the outdoor pool. Under water, the diver could not take his tie off the actor for a long time, he had to cut it.
In total, he has several tens of roles in the theater and about 75 film works. The most notable are the drama by Ischa Babich “Men! ..”, the melodrama by Samson Samsonov “Dear friend of long forgotten years ...”, the drama by Irina Poplavskaya “The Enchanted Wanderer” based on the novel by Leskov.
Now Mikhailov is 74 years old. Recently noticeable for his socio-political activities. He is a regular participant in the Russian Marches.
Nadezhda Kuzyakina
The wife of Mikhailov in the film is played by Nina Doroshina. “Love and Pigeons” has become one of her favorite paintings, even though in her career there were many bright and noticeable roles.
Doroshina - People's Artist of the RSFSR. She made her film debut in 1955 in a cameo role in Yuri Ozerov's drama "Son".
Prior to this tape, Vladimir Menshov played more than a dozen roles in the cinema, but was known primarily as a theater actress. It so happened that “Love and Pigeons” brought her all-Union popularity, but she almost never acted in films, except for a couple of minor roles.
In 2018, Doroshina died in Moscow at the age of 83.
Raisa Zakharovna
The character of Lyudmila Gurchenko in Love and Doves does not even have a surname. She plays a warrior who almost completely destroyed the Kuzyakin family.
Gurchenko is the most famous actress who took part in this project. The title "People's Artist of the USSR" she received just shortly before working with Menshov in 1983.
By the time of filming, her acting career had been going on for almost 30 years. In 1956, she made her debut on the big screen in the musical comedy of Eldar Ryazanov's “Carnival Night”, instantly becoming incredibly popular.
Over the years, she has performed several dozen roles in the cinema. I tried myself even in the role of director, filming in 2009 the musical melodrama "Variegated Twilight" together with Dmitry Korobkin.
Lyudmila Gurchenko died in 2011 at the age of 75.
Spectator Impressions
About the film "Love and Pigeons" reviews were almost all enthusiastic. Spectators were struck by the amazing atmosphere created by the director. Admittedly, Menshov turned out to be a masterpiece, which still remains a favorite and sought-after film.
The picture itself is cheerful and laid-back, although it poses a lot of difficult questions to the viewer. It makes you think about unfaithful husbands, the difficulties of living together, the opportunity to always save a family, no matter how catastrophic the situation may seem.
About the film "Love and Pigeons", viewers leave reviews so far, since it is regularly shown on central television. Each time he collects an impressive audience from the screens. This is one of those paintings that can be reviewed time after time, but it will not get any worse.