Raba Lyubvi (A Slave of Love) (1974)

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Nikita Mikhalkov examines the plight of the filmmaker operating in an uncertain political climate in his irony-laden seriocomedy Slave of Love. The time is 1918, at the height of the Bolshevik revolution. A small group of filmmakers are hurriedly trying to complete a silent melodrama while the world changes all around them. As production progresses, leading lady Elena Solovei metamorphoses from self-centered movie star to committed revolutionary. Normally described as "Chekhovian," director Mikhalkov borrows a few pages from Pirandello. With Slave of Love he gained his first serious international attention. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating:

PG
Genre:

Art House & International, Drama, Romance
Directed By:

Nikita Mikhalkov
In Theaters:

Jan 1, 1974 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Aug 9, 2005
Runtime:

94 minutes

Cast

Yelena Solovey
as Olga

Alexander Kalyagin

Rodion Nakhapetov
as Victor

Oleg Basilashvili
as Yuzhakov

Konstantin Grigoryev
as Fedotov

Nikolai Pastukhov

Vera Kuznetsova

Gotlib Roninson

Inna Ulyanova

Yevgeny Steblov

Nikita Mikhalkov

Vladimir Komissarov

Mikhail Chigarev

Alexandr Yakovlev

Elena Solovei

Aleksandr Kalyagin

Yevgeni Steblov

Yelena Solovei

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Critic Reviews for Raba Lyubvi (A Slave of Love)

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The whole picture is a bit too proud of itself, too thematically pat; but as is occasionally true with show-offs, there's something to its showing-off.

Jun 16, 2016 | Full Review…