Five Evenings

Five Evenings

1979 · 103 min · RU · 6.1 (28 votes)
Dir. Nikita Mikhalkov · Starring Lyudmila Gurchenko, Stanislav Lyubshin, Valentina Telichkina, Larisa Kuznetsova, Igor Nefyodov, Alexander Adabashyan
DramaRomance

The end of the 1950s. Aleksandr Petrovich Ilyin travels to the city where he lived before the war. Visiting the telephone operator Zoya, he sees a familiar house through the window and decides to go there for only fifteen minutes. So Aleksandr gets into a communal apartment, where the love of his youth Tamara Vasilyevna lives. They met twenty years ago and fell in love, but the war separated them. Now Ilyin and Tamara Vasilyevna met again, and love broke out with renewed vigor...

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A quiet, contemplative drama that feels like a warm, lingering memory. It's a tender exploration of lost time and the enduring power of a past love, set against a backdrop of quiet longing and unspoken emotions.

melancholicnostalgictenderwistfulslow-burnperiod dramakitchen sink realismcharacter-drivenlost loveregretsecond chancesmemory
reunionperiod dramapost world war ii1950s