Love and Pigeons (1984)

Original title

Любовь и голуби

Directed by

Vladimir Menshov

Genre

comedy drama, romance film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 146 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged family man in a Soviet village gets caught between his quiet home life and a new relationship during a seaside vacation. It follows the complications that arise when he returns to his wife and children.

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What happens

Love and Pigeons (Russian: Любовь и голуби, romanized: Lübov’ i golubi) is a Soviet romantic comedy-drama, filmed in 1984, at the Mosfilm film studio by director Vladimir Menshov, whose previous film Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It is based on a script written by theater actor Vladimir Gurkin, based on his own life experiences. The script is based on his play of the same name, written in 1981. The film was the leader of Soviet distribution in 1984 and sold over 44.5 million tickets. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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