Earthly Love (1975)

Original title

Любовь земная

Directed by

Yevgeny Matveyev

Genre

drama film, romance film, historical film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman in the Soviet countryside navigate love and personal struggles. The film follows their relationship against the backdrop of rural life and social changes.

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What happens

Earthy Love (Russian: Любовь земная, romanized: Lyubov zemnaya) is a 1974 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Yevgeny Matveyev and starring Matveyev, Olga Ostroumova, and Yury Yakovlev. The film was a screen adaptation of Pyotr Proskurin's novel Earthy Love, and was viewed by 50.9 million spectators in 1975. Yevgeny Matveyev was honored with the State Prize of the RSFSR for Earthy Love and Destiny. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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