The Theme
1979 · 98 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 623 VOTES · DIR. Gleb Panfilov
Overview
In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that here people live very differently than in the world familiar to him. By chance, he witnesses someone else's love drama - intellectual Sasha and dissident Andrei who is leaving for America. He is shocked by this complex conflict and fictitious problems, where there is no place for either melancholy or depression. In this situation, the hero decides to go to Moscow...
Dialogue Timeline — 1,164 lines
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00:00:11 Any resemblance to persons living or dead of the characters in this film is purely coincidental.
00:03:33 Enough. I must get on with my work.
00:06:19 - You write good. Excellent books. - Thank you.
00:08:48 It can get you 10 days.
00:12:11 Look at that. I've brought you a suitor.
00:15:11 - Left where? - To the UFO.
00:18:10 That which eluded me I've now achieved.
00:22:54 - That's it. Any questions? - No, thanks.
00:29:48 - Yes? - Your guest is here!
00:32:41 He's intelligent, charming, and not at all old.
00:35:36 - For 30 kopecks? - Yes.
00:38:26 I'll be dictating. It's the way I work.
00:41:18 A genius writes as he wishes.
00:44:19 though just today I swore I would.
00:48:07 A genius has an easier time of it!
00:53:23 Sashenka, Sashenka!
00:57:36 I'm sure of it.
01:00:52 "Here I was, high above the town, wide awake
01:03:49 The thread won't be broken. And I'll sound the alarm!
01:08:18 - 4-10? - Yes.
01:14:46 The voice is familiar.
01:19:38 They were.
01:23:20 If you loved me, you'd go with me.
01:32:20 Featuring: Mikhail Ulyanov as Kim Esenin Inna Churikova as Sasha Evgeny Vesnik as Igor Evghenia Nechayeva as Maria Alexandrovna Sergei Nikonenko as Sinitsyn Natalia Seleznyova as Svetlana Stanislav Liubshin as the Gravedigger The poems and diary excerpts are by A. Baldyonkov, a peasant poet of Palekh Village
Cast & Characters
Mikhail Ulyanov
Kim Yesenin, writer
Inna Churikova
Sasha Nikolaeva, museum guide
Evgeniy Vesnik
Igor Paschin - writer
Yevgeniya Nechayeva
Maria Alexandrovna
Sergey Nikonenko
Sinitsyn - policeman
Natalya Seleznyova
Svetlana
Stanislav Lyubshin
'Borodatyy' - Andrey
V. Asessorova
Vadim Fedulov
Galina Ilyina
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,164
Dialogue density11.9 lines / min
First line00:00:11
Final line01:32:20
Production Record
DirectorGleb Panfilov
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes623