A Sentimental Romance

A Sentimental Romance

93 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 1, 1976

The film is set in the 1920s. Shura Sevastyanov is an aspiring journalist in a small newspaper, with two-classes of a parochial school behind him. In the spirit of building communism, he is an ardent fighter against philistinism in all its forms. He denies the phenomenon of love, believing that it does not exist and that there is only friendship and sexual desire of man to woman.

A Sentimental Romance

93 mins | Drama, Romance | Dec. 1, 1976

A Sentimental Romance
The film is set in the 1920s. Shura Sevastyanov is an aspiring journalist in a small newspaper, with two-classes of a parochial school behind him. In the spirit of building communism, he is an ardent fighter against philistinism in all its forms. He denies the phenomenon of love, believing that it does not exist and that there is only friendship and sexual desire of man to woman.
Producers Lenfilm
Original title Сентиментальный роман
Directors Igor Maslennikov
Writers Vera Panova, Igor Maslennikov

Cast

Elena Proklova

as Zoya the big

Yelena Koreneva

as Zoya the little

Nikolai Denisov

as Shura Sevastyanov

Stanislav Lyubshin

as Kushlya

Sergey Migitsko

as Syomka Gorodnitskiy

Lyudmila Gurchenko

as Mariya Petrichenko

Lyudmila Dmitrieva

as Ksanya

Valentina Titova

as Marianna

Vladimir Basov

as Gorodnitskiy's father

Ivan Bortnik

as Kucheryavyy

Mikhail Boyarskiy

as Akopyan

Nikolai Valyano

as cafe director

Boris Galkin

as Stepan

Nikolai Karachentsov

as Zoya the big's brother

Oleg Yankovskiy

as Ilya Gorodnitskiy

Tamara Abrosimova

as Zoya the little's mother

Yuri Vyushin

as Kolya Igumnov

Yuri Goncharov

as Tolya Shchipakin

Vladimir Markov

as Zoya the little's father