General Information

Original Title

Ob"iasnenie v liubvi

Author/Creator

Averbakh, Ilya, director.

Language

Russian.

Published

Soviet Union : Lenfilm, 1977.

Physical Description

VHS (135 min.)

Contents/Summary

Summary

This is the story of a writer's love that spans over many decades. An elderly writer is visiting his wife at a medical establishment to give her a copy of his latest book. As he travels, he remembers how they met during the chaos surrounding the Russian Civil War (1918-21). She came to the door of his apartment looking for a room and was carrying her infant son with her. He took her under his wing, but his job of conveying the meaning of the revolution frequently sent him on trips which placed him in danger. The two of them married, but around the beginning the Second World War, his wife left him following the accidental death of her then-teenaged son. On an assignment to the front, he meets an injured publisher who tells him about her life since she left him -- her affairs and so on -- before he dies of his wounds. After the war, he returns to his apartment, which the two of them shared together for so many years, and he finds her sitting there in a darkened room.

Subjects

Genre

Fiction films

Bibliographic Information

Title Translation

A Declaration of Love

Note

Duration: 02:15:00

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Call Number	Status	Shelving Location	Public Note
VHS	OSA Film Library	FL Record 0994	Available	-	-