Monologue of Love is a Soviet musical telefilm, written by Grigore Vieru and directed by Larisa Maslyuk, starring Sofia Rotaru in the main role. The movie filmed at Ukretelefilm (Ukrainian Studio of Television Films - Gosteleradio 1986) in Crimea (Ukrainian SSR), Kazakh SSR and Lithuanian SSR, features the new conception in the Soviet musical telefilms: substantial poetry monologues recited by Sofia Rotaru on themes associated with love, followed by thematic songs and corresponding natural geographical and theatrical scenic setting.
Monologue of Love | |
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Directed by | Larisa Maslyuk |
Written by | Grigore Vieru |
Produced by | Larisa Maslyuk |
Starring | Sofia Rotaru |
Music by | Arnold Svyatogorov, Tatyana Dikareva and others |
Distributed by | Ukrtelefilm |
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Running time | 71 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Languages | Ukrainian Russian Romanian |
Budget | $,000,000 (estimated) |
Box office | $,000,000 (Worldwide) |
Plot
editThe conceptual base are the poetic monologues read by Sofia Rotaru playing herself, singer. The monologues were read by Sofia Rotaru in Russian, whereas their author, G. Vieru, has supposedly written them in Romanian beforehand. In between the monologues, adapted music videos appear in all different kinds of scenery from Kazakh desert to Bukovinian rich green villages, passing by beautiful Crimean Black Sea and Lithuanian Baltic Sea shorelines. Sofia Rotaru performs personally in the movie without double stunt performers, namely the role of windsurfer in love, singing the song "Amor" in Romanian language.
Soundtrack
editSofia Rotaru performed following songs:Echo of Fidelity, Insignificant Event, They Say, Autumn, Night, We - People, "Retro" Machine, Leaves Flew Away, In My House, Amor, The Water Flows, Give Me a Break.
Composers: I. Poklad, David Tukhmanov, A. Morozov, K. Shuaev, Arnold Svyatogorov, G. Tatarchenko, V. Laschyuk, Tatyana Dikareva, Vladimir Matetsky.
Lyrics by authors: Rasul Gamzatov, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrey Voznesensky, Grigore Vieru, Yu. Rybchinskiy, I. Lazarevskiy, M. Ryabinin, V. Bliznichuk, G. Taranenko, Nikolay Rubtsov, V. Laschyuk, A. Saed-Shakh,
Music was performed by ensembles: "Chervona Ruta", "Calendar", "Forum", "Synthesis", "Display", State Pop-Symphonic Orchestra of USSR, group of violin players of the pop-symphonic orchestra of the Ukrainian Television and Radio
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1 | "Theatre" ‹See Tfd›Russian: Театр/Teatr |
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2 | "They Say" ‹See Tfd›Russian: Говорят/Govoryat |
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3 | "Echo of Fidelity" ‹See Tfd›Russian: Эхо верности/Ekho vernosti |
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4 | Little Incident ‹See Tfd›Russian: Маленькое происшествие/Malenikoe proishestvie |
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5 | "Autumn" ‹See Tfd›Russian: Осень/Oseni |
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6 | "Night" ‹See Tfd›Russian: Ночь/Nochi |
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7 | "We - People" ‹See Tfd›Russian: Мы - люди/My - lyudi |
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8 | "Retro Machine" ‹See Tfd›Russian: Машина "Ретро"/Mashina "Retro" |
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9 | "Leaves Have Flown Away" ‹See Tfd›Russian: Улетели листья/Uleteli listya |
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10 | "Water Flows" Ukrainian: Тече вода/Teche voda |
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11 | "Love" Romanian: Amor |
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12 | "Life, Send Me a Break" ‹See Tfd›Russian: Жизнь, ниспошли мне передышку/Zhizni, nisposhli mne peredyshku |
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13 | "In My House" ‹See Tfd›Russian: В доме моем/V dome moyom |
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Cast
edit- V. Stepanov, Ira Chernyaeva, Lena Sedova,
- students of villages: Rybachy in Kaliningrad Oblast, Nida in Lithuanian SSR.
- Ensemble of pop dances of the Palace of Culture of "Abay",
- actors of puppet theatre in Shevchenko, Fort-Shevchenko in Kazakh SSR,
- Vyzhnytsia in Chernivtsi Oblast,
- Gurzuf in Crimea
Production
edit- Producer: Larisa Maslyuk
- Cameraman: Guennadiy Zubanov
- Scenario: Grigore Vieru
- The music recorded by Vladimir Leshchenko
- Responsible for movie production and processing: V. Kozyarevich, Ya. Golovach, K. Petrov, V. Kuznetsov, N. Zachipelenko, I. Bonitenko, B. Sidrochenko, V. Vorobiev, I. Gusev, A. Bilko, A. Makedon, T. Semekha, N. Svetikova, I. Sidorov
References
edit- ^ Chronological order