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Flights in Dreams and Reality

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The main character of the film begins to experience a middle-age crisis; it seems that a big part of everything he wanted, is in fact, nothing more than empty vanity. Constant feeling of discomfort and dissatisfaction makes the hero rush between the people and do strange things in the hope that there
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At forty a person achieves many things, but previous ideals often lose their value. Sergey becomes completely confused, he is not bound to his wife with anything other than obligations, and he develops affection for a young girl named Alisa (Elena Kostina). Sergey is loved by a beautiful woman Larisa
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makes a cameo appearance in the film, playing a film director. The role of Sergei Makarov was originally designed with him in mind. But when working on the script, director Roman
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The film was not made available until early 1983, initially being granted a very limited release, and was not widely seen until the time of
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saw the TV film "We, the Undersigned" starring Oleg Yankovsky, and decided that he should play the main character.
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At the time of its release, politically minded viewers perceived it as a critique of Brezhnevian “stagnation”.
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will be a change in his life, that something will happen what was previously unavailable.
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Elena Mikhailova as railway points operator (E. Cherniak, uncredited)
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The film features many highly acclaimed Soviet/Russian actors, with
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Elena Kostina as Alice Suvorov, Makarov's mistress (voiced by
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This article related to a Soviet film of the 1980s is a
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as Larisa Kuzmina, Makarov's colleague and former lover
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On the eve of his fortieth birthday, Sergey Makarov (
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Index


Roman Balayan
Viktor Merezhko
Oleg Yankovsky
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Oleg Tabakov
Aleksandr Adabashyan
Oleg Menshikov
Vilen Kalyuta
Dovzhenko Film Studios
Russian
romanized
Soviet
drama film
Roman Balayan
Viktor Merezhko
midlife crisis
Oleg Yankovsky
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Oleg Tabakov
Aleksandr Adabashyan
Oleg Menshikov
Oleg Yankovsky
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Oleg Tabakov
Oleg Menshikov
arm wrestling
Oleg Yankovsky
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Oleg Tabakov

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