6.5 Brief Encounters (1967) 6.5 The Long Farewell (1971) 6.5 Astenicheskiy Sindrom/ The Asthenic Syndrome (1989) | Links: |
Kira Muratova
Kira Muratova in Ukraine debuted with
Nash Chestnyi Khleb/ Our Honest Bread (1964)
and then
specialized in provincial melodramas such as Korotkiye Vstrechi/ Brief Encounters (1967), in which she also acted, and Dolgie Provody/ The Long Farewell (1971, released only 16 years later).
She struggled to complete
Poznavaia Belyi Svet/ Exploring the Wide World (1978)
and
Sredi Serykh Kamnei/ Among the Gray Stones (1983), adapted from a Vladimir Korolenko story,
but then was free to make
Peremena Uchasti/ A Change of Fate (1987), adapted from Somerset Maugham’s play "The Letter",
and
Astenicheskii Sindrom/ The Asthenic Syndrome (1989)
in the time of perestroika.
Chuvstvitelnyi Militsioner Uvlechenia/ Passions (1994) Tri Istorii/ Three Stories (1997) Vtorostepennye Liudi/ Second-class People (2001) Chekhovskie Motivy/ Chekhov’s Motifs (2002), photographed by Valeri Makhnev, is an adaptation of two Chekhov works (the short story “Difficult People” and the play “Tatyana Repina”). Nastroishchik/ The Tuner (2004) -->
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