wikipedia wrote:
The Second World War. The crew of an American aircraft falls into the German camp. Three members of the crew decide to sacrifice their lives to let the other prisoners to escape. The film’s protagonist – the fourth member of the crew (He) – wants to join them, but the commander and fellow soldiers denied him, as for the implementation of planned to only three, and four people suspected Nazi cause and make an escape plan unfeasible. Saying goodbye to departing for the death of friends, the protagonist says:

– In truth, Dick (the name of the commander of a flying fortress), I will be ashamed to live.
– Live in a way that you will not be ashamed.

The pilots are killed, but many prisoners, including the protagonist fleeing from the camp. It takes fifteen years and a former prisoner is known successful American journalist. Before going to Europe for the NATO session hero learns about the criminal plans of the U.S. reconnaissance – in fact we are talking about the coming military conflict is inevitable between the USSR and the USA. Before the hero of the film’s dilemma: to make a statement by publishing what he knew details of a planned provocation, having lost with all the good things of life, or keep silent.

On the eve of departure from the U.S. hero visits his ex-wife, where he spent the night, remembering his life (including a betrayal of the ideals for which had to fight during the Second World War and in Spain, betrayal of his friends, members of the postwar American Communist Party) and makes for a difficult a choice.

In the early sixties, the play “Fourth,” performed by many theater groups of the country, for example such as BDT and “Contemporary”. Unfortunately, the film adaptation of the play, launched a decade later, has failed, despite years of cooperation with Stolper Simonov. [1] In this connection it may be considered as the sunset of creative activity of one or the other. (Simonov, incidentally, has always considered himself a weak playwright).

The film does not have the popularity and now: the participation of Vladimir Vysotsky in the title role has not made it attractive as well as the participation of other “stars.” The artists, who starred in this film, without exception, are masters of cinema and theater for their shoulders, having played leading roles in famous films. [2] For example, playing a small part of the Mourning Widow, Zinaida Slavin, Vysotsky called her his favorite actress. The situation did not save the movie and the long dance number by Maris Liepa. In contrast to the actor’s monologue Petrenko, largely determine the impact of the film “Twenty Days Without War,” this piece, the inclusion in the film is artificial, and drops out of the plot, although considered the most expressive staging ballet miniature by Liepa. Its duration is less than four minutes, but in terms of screen time it seems protracted.
The gloom film phenomenon gives the dead: the protagonist, trying to deal with his conscience, causing the spirits of their comrades killed in the war. In the film, little action, there is no clear chronology of events. The play takes us back to the Cold War.

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Anna Lawton wrote:
After a brilliant debut with Our Daily Bread (1965), co-directed with her husband Alexander Muratov, Muratova was allowed to make her own film, Brief Encounters (1967). On the surface the story was simple enough. Valentina, a conscientious civil servant in charge of the regional housing office, and Maxim, a geologist-prospector and guitar player devoted to an itinerant and adventurous life, have a difficult relationship – a series of brief encounters and lengthy separations. Their episodic meetings bring into focus their love and need for each other, but also their basic differences, disappointments, and resentment. There is a third character in this love triangle, Nadya, a country girl Valentina hires as a maid without knowing of her past relation with Maxim.

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A delightful mixture of history, humor, and drama!
9 October 2001 | by Eric Norton

Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage – Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal – under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a wealthy boyar. Peter the Great insists the two be married, but Ibrahim goes against the tsar’s wishes, refusing to force her to marry him since she doesn’t consent. When another man tries to marry her, however, Ibrahim’s loyalties and generous nature are put to the test.

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kinoglaz.fr:
Nadya (Nina Ruslanova) is a young woman who loves the geologist Maxim (Vladimir Vysotsky). She takes a job as a housemaid before discovering Maxim is romantically involved with town official Valentina Ivanovna (Kira Muratova). The heartbroken Nadya goes away before Maxim can return, leaving him and Valentina to pursue their romance.

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imdb:
Nadja, a country girl moves to the city and becomes Valya’s maid. Valya, a member of the District Soviet, does not know that Nadja fell in love with Valya’s currently absent husband, a geologist, when he was at her village on a recent expedition. Written by Erik Gregersen {[email protected]}

Brief Meetings is about a love triangle between three very different people. Nadia, a country girl, falls in love with Maskim, a roaming guitar playing geologist, and in her search for him she ends up working for Valentina, his long-distance, bureaucrat wife. Nadia begins to work as a maid for Valentina, but as they spend time together they have flashbacks to their brief meetings with Maskim. These flashbacks occur throughout the film and both Valentina and Nadia have them. Finally news arrives of Maskim’s return to Valentina. On the day of his return Nadia cooks a meal for them both and leaves before they arrive, Valentina never knew of Nadia’s encounters with Maskim, and Maskim will never know of Nadia’s time with Valentina. Written by David Leach –

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