In 1968, the melodrama by George Nathanson, Once Again About Love, was released on large Soviet screens. Actors Tatyana Doronina and Alexander Lazarev played the main roles in this film. The picture became the leader of the rental that distant year. What is the story about? And in what scenario are relations between her characters developing?
The creators of the picture
George Natanson entered the directing department at VGIK in 1939. Unfortunately, he had to interrupt his studies for a while: the Great Patriotic War began. Nathanson enlisted in the Red Army, but after a while, he picked up bilateral pneumonia and was commissioned. George continued his studies in Alma-Ata, where VGIK was evacuated.
In 1941, Natanson began his career at Mosfilm as an assistant director. In the 50s, George G. received the right to shoot full-length pictures on their own, without mentors. Among the most famous works of the director are the films “White Acacia”, “Enraged Bus” and “Once Again About Love”.
Actors A. Lazarev and T. Doronin composed a successful screen duet in this film. The script for the picture was written by Edward Radzinsky on the basis of his play "104 pages about love."
In 1968, 40 million viewers of the USSR watched the melodrama of George Natanson. A year later, the creation of the Soviet director was shown at the film festival in Colombia, where the picture won the Grand Prix.
Short story
“Once again about love” is a story about how love can defeat any incompatibility.
In one of the Soviet restaurants there is an intellectual physicist and a stewardess. Smug and extremely self-confident Electron Evdokimov gets to know Natasha solely because of her external data. But then they begin to talk, and the arrogant intellectual realizes that in front of him is a person with his own opinion and life views.
It is not known what attracted this pair to each other. They look at life completely differently: Evdokimov is a pessimist, prone to black humor and spleen, behaving arrogantly; Natasha is delicate, diplomatic and kind. Nevertheless, the physicist and the stewardess are trying to understand each other and maintain tender feelings. In the finale, love wins: even a cynic like Evdokimov suddenly realizes that he has no closer person than Natasha. For the first time in their long relationship, he buys a bouquet of flowers and, without any arrogance, is waiting for his girlfriend on a date.
“Once Again About Love”: actors and roles. Tatyana Doronina as Natasha
Tatyana Doronina graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School-Studio in 1956. While still a student, the aspiring actress married her classmate Oleg Basilashvili. After serving two years at the Volgograd Theater, the actors returned to St. Petersburg. Then Tatyana began her career in cinema.
One of her first films was the melodrama First Tier. There she played virgin conqueror Zoya. Then there were the films “Soldiers Went”, “Horizon”, “Roll Call”, “Worker Village”.
The actors of the film “Once Again About Love” did a wonderful job with their images, largely because the director did not force them to play something alien: like her heroine Natasha, Tatyana Doronina in real life is a kind, sympathetic and delicate person. The image of a selfless, loving stewardess was as if written from her. The tape "Once Again About Love" means a lot in the career of an actress - she strengthened the position of Doronina in Soviet cinema.
In the 80s, Doronin began to act less, but in the 87th she was appointed artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky. The actress holds this position to this day.
“Once again about love”: actors. Alexander Lazarev in the role of Electron Edokimov
Alexander Lazarev is a representative of the famous Leningrad theater dynasty. His aunt was a dresser at the Alexandrinsky Theater, and his younger brother was known as a good comedian. After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, Lazarev entered the service at the Theater. Mayakovsky.
In the movie, the artist played more than a hundred roles, most of them were in the main films. The performer made his debut in the comedy "Free Wind", where he was immediately entrusted with the first role. Then there was the cult series “Calling Fire on ourselves”, the films “Retribution” and “Portrait of Dorian Gray”. In the 67th, Lazarev got the main role in the melodrama Once Again About Love.
The actor played the role of the self-confident and narcissistic physicist Evdokimov. The hero looks at life with a fair amount of cynicism and is truly passionate only about his profession. However, his new acquaintance Natasha will be able to change the intellectual’s attitude towards people and make him genuinely love someone for the first time.
Other role performers
In the film “Once Again About Love”, the actors Doronin, Lazarev and Efremov actually made up a love triangle. According to the plot, the navigator Lev Kartsev (O. Efremov) has long and hopelessly in love with charming Natasha. But she still chooses the physicist Evdokimov.
Also in the frame you can see Elena Koroleva (“We call the fire on ourselves”), Alexander Shirvindt (“The most charming and attractive”) and Vladimir Komratov (“Walking through the agony”).