A Slave of Love (1976)

A Slave of Love (1976)
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Writers: Fridrikh Gorenshtein & Andrei Konchalovsky
Release Date: September 1976 (Soviet Union)
Genre: Drama - Romance
Runtime: 1:29:28


* Cast :

Yelena Solovey ... Olga Nikolayevna Voznesenskaya
Rodion Nahapetov ... Victor Pototsky
Aleksandr Kalyagin ... Kalyagin
Oleg Basilashvili ... Yuzhakov
Konstantin Grigoryev ... Fedotov

- Rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Yuri Bogatyryov ... Maksakov
Mikhail Chigaryov
Valentin Komissarov (as V. Kommissarov)
Vera Kuznetsova ... Lyubov Andreevna
Nikita Mikhalkov
Nikolai Pastukhov ... Writer
Gotlib Roninson
Yevgeni Steblov
Inna Ulyanova
Vadim Vilsky


* Plot :


Olga Voznesenskaya is a silent screen star whose pictures are so popular that underground revolutionaries risk capture to see them. She's in southern Russia filming a tear-jerker as the Bolsheviks get closer to Moscow. Although married, she spends time every day with Victor Pototsky, the film's cameraman.


Gradually, it comes to light that Victor uses his job as a cover for filming White atrocities and Red heroism: he's a Bolshevik. He asks her for help, and she discovers meaning in her otherwise flighty and self-centered life. Love blooms. Will the Red forces arrive in time to save them from a suspicious White military leader? Will she find courage?