Faratyev's Fantasies

5.3 / 10

(6 votes)

Averbakh's adaptation of a play by Alla Sokolova, Faratyev's Fantasies is the story of a man surrounded by four woman, Faratyev, he is madly in love with on, Aleksandra, compassionately take care of another, her aunt, and is indifferent to the other two, Aleksandra's mother, and her sister, Lyuba. The world of these characters are that of dreams, each one's dream in interconnected to that of other, and each respond differently to it. Faratyev is a man who dreams, he live in the world of fantasies. Aleksandra and her mother listen to him, but do not take him seriously, his aunt listen to him, believe him, but do not encourage him, only Lyuba understand him, but to him, she is a mere child, he is madly in love with her sister, Aleksandra, she is a realist, she does not love him, but for sake of her own prosperity and that of her mother and sister, she agree to marry him, only to run away with the mysterious Bedhudov...

Country:

Soviet Union

Genre:

Comedy,

Drama,

TV Movie

Duration:

144 minutes

Year:

1979

Director:

Ilya Averbakh

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Company:

Lenfilm

Cast:
Marina Neyolova

Aleksandra

Andrey Mironov

Faryatyev

Zinaida Sharko

Mother

Liliya Gritsenko

Aunt

Maxim Britvenkov

boy

Crew:
Ilya Averbakh

Director

Alla Sokolova

Theatre Play

Ilya Averbakh

Writer

Dmitriy Dolinin

Director of Photography

Alfred Schnittke

Music