The Theme

The Theme

94 mins | Drama | Jan. 9, 1979

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 - dissident Andrei and intellectual Sasha, 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...

The Theme

94 mins | Drama | Jan. 9, 1979

The Theme
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 - dissident Andrei and intellectual Sasha, 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...
IMDb rating 7.3
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Тема
Directors Gleb Panfilov
Writers Aleksandr Chervinsky, Gleb Panfilov

Cast

Mikhail Ulyanov

as Kim Yesenin

Inna Churikova

as Sasha Nikolayeva

Yevgeni Vesnik

as Pashchin

Yevgeniya Nechayeva

as Mariya Aleksandrovna

Sergey Nikonenko

as Sinitsyn

Natalya Seleznyova

as Svetlana

Stanislav Lyubshin

as 'Bearded'