Description
Galina, a restorer at the Hermitage, is unwilling to marry a man she does not love and, unsure of being loved in return, hides her feelings for a married man. Telling of a woman at war with herself, reluctant to arrange her private life by the accepted rules, the film asks whether feelings can be spoken under social constraint.
About the director:
Mikhail Bogin
Filmmaker. Born in Kharkiv in 1936. In 1954–1956, he studied at the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. In 1964, he graduated from the Directing Faculty at VGIK (workshop of GrigoryRoshal and Yuri Genik). His films include Two in Love (1965, short; FIPRESCI Prize and Golden Prize for Best Short at the Moscow International Film Festival), Zosia (1967), About Love (1970), and Looking for a Person (1973). In 1975, he emigrated to the United States, where he made A Private Life (1979) and A Prophet Hath No Honour in His Own Country (1981). Bogin later returned to Russia; he currently lives and works in Moscow.