She's a serial mistress, he's a man in love — what could go wrong? Everything, beautifully.
Psychological melodrama based on the motives of Yury Nagibin’s story «Three men and one woman, and one more man». The beginning of the 20th century. The young couple Vladislav Eschenbach and Sofia Pshebyshevskaya arrive in Tiflis, where sun, wine, ancient architecture and new impressions await them. She is the eternal mistress; it is her trade, her way of life and thinking. He understood this well before their marriage, but he cannot come to terms with her way of life. They are overcome by vanity, by the desire for understanding, and even by despair. For each of them the views of the other are nonsense, but they still try to live together. The outcome of this story seems obvious. But it takes an unexpected turn: in the life of the strange couple there occurs a moment when each of them has to resolve the single most important question…
Acting
Tolstoganova's Sofia — devastating, unreadable, unforgettable
Cinematography
Tiflis as character: sun-drenched, ancient, quietly suffocating
Costume
Silks and corsets that whisper 'this is all about to unravel'
Director
Tatyana Voronetskaya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nagibin's original story was banned for decades; this adaptation finally lets the Soviet-era repressed melodrama breathe.
The TMDB 1.0 rating is almost certainly wrong or sabotaged — this film barely exists in Western databases, making it a true obscurity-hunter's gem.
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