The Elder Son

The Elder Son

1975 · 140 min · RU · 6.9 (21 votes)
Dir. Vitaliy Melnikov · Starring Evgeni Leonov, Natalya Yegorova, Nikolai Karachentsov, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Vladimir Izotov
Drama

Two students are late for the last commuter train and have to spend a night in a strange town. They rack their brains about where to find shelter and quite by chance they overhear a talk between father and son. The son is an adolescent who is head over heels in love with a girl several years his senior. He is living through the first drama of his life though his love is just puppy love. Then, being resourceful fellows, they think of a plan to pass one of them for the elder son of this family. The reason they give for his unexpected arrival is that he is a child of the father's long-forsaken love. They presume this cock-and-bull story will come off, and right they are!

VIBE

A quiet, contemplative film exploring the tender anxieties of young love and the bittersweet pangs of growing up. It feels like a half-remembered dream, tinged with the melancholy of fleeting moments and the quiet desperation of youth.

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