A Long Happy Life

Victor and Lena meet on a bus. Neither of them knows the other. Victor is a performer travelling with an acting troupe. Lena is a young woman on her way to see her father. They spend a day together and something forms between them. But their roads lead elsewhere, and both of them know it. The film does not build a great love story; it tells one day and the end of that day. The account comes from the vein of Soviet cinema in the sixties that turned towards the plain and the everyday. The seventy six minutes are given to a single day. Inna Gulaya and Kirill Lavrov appear in Gennady Shpalikov’s Soviet film, completed in 1966.