Winter Cherry

8 hrs. 17 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Vladimir Valutsky

Narrator Alla Chovzhyk

Description

Vladimir Valutsky (1936–2015) was the author of scripts for many films loved by audiences (“Yaroslavna, Queen of France,” “King of Blackmail,” “A Deadly Showdown,” and “Hunt for a Tiger” about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, “Mary Poppins, Goodbye!” and others). However, at the end of his life he said: “A screenwriter’s work is, by nature, nerve-racking… It’s much easier and more pleasant to write slow, unhurried prose. It has always attracted and tempted me, and in the breaks between film-making I wrote something.”

“Winter Cherry” (1985) is one of the most popular melodramas in Russian cinema. The famous film—32 million tickets sold—was based on a novel of the same name. “Unhurried prose” about the love of ordinary people, Vadim and Olga, written with the light sadness, gentle humor, and compassion for the heroes that are characteristic of Valutsky. “...If two people love each other, if it’s so good together that you can’t even imagine… Isn’t it simpler than twice two, right?” Vadim has a family, while Olga isn’t sure that a romance with a married man will bring her happiness. Can the rules of “simple arithmetic” be applied to their story?