The Pokrovsky Gate


The Pokrovsky Gate Russian Pokrovskiye Vorota is a 1982 Soviet comedy film produced for television by Mosfilm. It was directed by Mikhail Kozakov and stars Oleg Menshikov, Leonid Bronevoy, and Inna Ulyanova. The screenplay is based on a 1974 stage play by Leonid Zorin.

The story takes place in the 1950s. Konstantin Kostik Romin Oleg Menshikov has come to Moscow to study history and is staying with kindly aunt Alisa Sofya Pilyavskaya, who lives in a communal apartment building there. His life soon becomes intertwined with those of the other residents. Among them are Margarita Pavlovna Inna Ulyanova and both her former husband Lev Khobotov Anatoly Ravikovich, a publisher of foreign poetry, and her new beau, WW2 veteran and engraverturnedteacher Savva Ignatevich Viktor Bortsov.The main plot revolves around the congenial Khobotovs attempts to find happiness with newfound love Lyudochka Yelena Koreneva, while constantly being thwarted by the controlling Margarita. Another tenant is musical comedian Arkady Velyurov Leonid Bronevoy, who is trying to revive his faltering career and escape from his own loneliness. He has become enamored of a young competitive swimmer, Svetlana Tatyana Dogileva, who rebuffs his advances but takes a fancy to the opportunistic Kostik. ........

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