A Lover's Romance

A Lover's Romance
A Lover's Romance
Directed by	Andrei Konchalovsky
Written by	Yevgeny Grigoriev
Produced by	Alexandra Demidova
Starring	Yevgeny Kindinov; Iya Savvina; Yelena Koreneva; Irina Kupchenko; Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Cinematography	Levan Paatashvili
Edited by	Valentina Kulagina
Music by	Alexander Gradsky
Production; company	Mosfilm
Release date	1974;
Running time	135 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

A Lover's Romance or Romance for Lovers (Russian: Романс о влюблённых, romanized: Romans o vlyublyonnykh) is a 1974 Soviet musical romantic drama directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.^[1]

Plot

Sergei and Tanya are in love with each other. Sergei is drafted into the marine corps and Tania waits for his return. Sergei's division is abandoned in favor of helping local residents in distress. During the operation, his armored personnel gets carried into the sea. His relatives receive a notice of his death. Tanya's loving childhood friend, a hockey player, helps her to cope with misfortune and she marries him.

But it turned out that Sergei did not perish. He, together with a wounded friend he saved, are found on a deserted island after a long winter. Back home, Sergei learns that Tanya has married another. Unable to accept the loss of his beloved, Sergei dies; but this death is a symbolic and emotional one, not physical. Sergei continues to live a normal life without shock and strong distress, meets another girl, marries her, has a child. In the finale there is a spiritual rebirth of the hero.