Day 24: Film with Great Romance
For some reason I don’t watch very many, but “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” or Весна на Заречной улице (1956) is one of those that has stayed with me and settled deep in my memories even before the opening song was over. Think “Pride and Prejudice” but set in a snowy industrial town on the banks of the Dniepr. The film, exquisitely made by Marlen Khutsiev and Felix Mironer, is a curious take on the classic Thaw Bildungsroman (featuring ideal ‘model’ workers), two happening at the same time and colliding gently together - and with as much painfully romantic, unspoken melancholy you can fit into every shy uncertain pause. Popular star Nikolai Rybnikov is so likeable as the mischievous, blustery boyish shock worker smitten by his night school teacher, and the heroine (played so endearingly by first-time actress Nina Ivanovna) is lovely as the reserved young schoolteacher finding her footing and unable to drop her guard. In the end it’s a love story between two young people who, for the longest time misunderstand the other’s feelings as well as their own, at least until spring :’) Xo
For some reason I don’t watch very many, but “Spring on Zarechnaya Street” or Весна на Заречной улице (1956) is one of those that has stayed with me and settled deep in my memories even before the opening song was over. Think “Pride and Prejudice” but set in a snowy industrial town on the banks of the Dniepr. The film, exquisitely made by Marlen Khutsiev and Felix Mironer, is a curious take on the classic Thaw Bildungsroman (featuring ideal ‘model’ workers), two happening at the same time and colliding gently together - and with as much painfully romantic, unspoken melancholy you can fit into every shy uncertain pause. Popular star Nikolai Rybnikov is so likeable as the mischievous, blustery boyish shock worker smitten by his night school teacher, and the heroine (played so endearingly by first-time actress Nina Ivanovna) is lovely as the reserved young schoolteacher finding her footing and unable to drop her guard. In the end it’s a love story between two young people who, for the longest time misunderstand the other’s feelings as well as their own, at least until spring :’) Xo
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