The Garden of Desires (Russian: Сад желаний, romanizedSad zhelaniy) is a 1987 Soviet drama film directed by Ali Hamroyev.[1]

The Garden of Desires
Directed byAli Khamraev
Written bySergey Lazutkin
Produced byLyudmila Gabelaya
StarringMarianna Velizheva
CinematographyVladimir Klimov
Edited byVera Ostrinskaya
Music byJohann Sebastian Bach
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Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
98 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Plot

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The film is set during the last summer before the Great Patriotic War. Three sisters are coming to stay with their grandmother in the village. They imagine the world as a vast and charming garden of desires and all members of the household are waiting for Asya's birthday. Asya has a sense of foreboding regarding the impending grief. Guests come to visit but none of them are her parents. She still does not know that her father was declared an enemy of the people, that tomorrow she will not see her mother and that the war is approaching.

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Criticism

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Sergey Kudryavtsev

Against the background of these frightening details that break into the bright world of girls' dreams and violate its natural harmony, the feeling of happiness, the joy of being, of some golden age of the socialist empire, is incomprehensibly dominating.[2]

Alexander Fyodorov

Young performers played not at all simple roles emotionally, uninhibitedly, without professional templates. Each of the sisters has his own character, temperament, a look at the world.[3]

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