The Theme 1979

A Stinging Comedy from Russia

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Drama

In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that here people live very differently than in the world familiar to him. By chance, he witnesses someone else's love drama - intellectual Sasha and dissident Andrei who is leaving for America. He is shocked by this complex conflict and fictitious problems, where there is no place for either melancholy or depression. In this situation, the hero decides to go to Moscow...

Release Date 1979-01-09
Runtime 1h 38m
Directors Gleb Panfilov, Leonid Kalashnikov
Producer
Writers Gleb Panfilov, Aleksandr Chervinsky