July Rain
1966 · Movie · 115 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
A woman is forced to examine the emptiness of her life in this stark drama from the Soviet Union. Lena (Yevgenya Uralova) is a woman in her late twenties who loves her boyfriend Volodya (Aleksandr Belyavsky) but in time comes to see that their relationship serves no useful function. What's more, she sees that her friends are for the most part empty-headed lackeys, causing her to wonder just what is the point of her life. Director Marlen Khutsiev, who previously made the well-received I Am Twenty, displays a strong stylistic debt to Michelangelo Antonioni in this feature, which received one of its few screenings (since its original release in 1967) at the 2000 Locarno Film Festival as part of a retrospective on Soviet filmmaking. (Mark Demin: All Movie Guide)
Direction Marlen Khutsiev
Cast Yevgeniya Uralova · Aleksandr Belyavsky · Yuri Vizbor · Aleksandr Mitta · Alla Brodskaya · Boris Belousov · Vitali Belyakov · Viktoriya Beskova
Soundtrack Bulat Okudzhava
Screenplay Marlen Khutsiev · Anatoli Grebnev
Cinematography German Lavrov
Original title Iyulskiy dozhd
6.4
48 votes (FilmAffinity)
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