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Bookmark this pageA Nest of Gentlefolk (1969)
Director: Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
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From Time Out Film Guide
The first thing you notice about Konchalovsky's film is the vulnerability of its characters. Based on one of Turgenev's stories, it's all there - the travels abroad to remote and seductive but unsatisfying foreign capitals, the continuing dialogue on the meaning of Russianness, the feeling of gentlemanly melancholy...and those women. A man, a gentleman (even if his mother was a servant), reopens his old estate, a servant girl bobbing ahead of him opening doors, drawing back curtains - an excuse for some superb camerawork. Shown sumptuous portraits of his father's family, he asks to see his mother's portrait. In a sense the rest of the film is an attempt to piece together the picture, first of one woman - the wife who left him - then another, and to paint himself into their world. Not a bad aim, and one that isn't given a falsely easy solution either.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky
Cast: Leonid Kulagin, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Irina Kupchenko, A Kostomolotsky, Viktor Sergachov, V Kochurikhin, Nikita Mikhalkov full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 106 mins
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