A Slave of Love

A Slave of Love (1976)

Раба любви

During the Russian Civil War, the production of a silent melodrama runs into numerous complications.

Date of release
1976-09-27
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (38)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, Romance, Comedy
Director
Nikita Mikhalkov

Casting

Interesting facts

A Slave of Love is a 1976 Soviet romantic comedy-drama film directed by Nikita Mikhalkov and written by Friedrich Gorenstein and Andrey Konchalovskiy. It stars Elena Solovey, Rodion Nakhapetov and Aleksandr Kalyagin. The film is about a silent film actress, Olga Voznesenskaya, whose films are so admired by the revolutionaries that they risk capture to see her on the screen. The character of Olga was inspired by Vera Kholodnaya.

Background and production

Vera Kholodnaya, sometimes described as Russia's first major movie star was the inspiration for the character of Olga Voznesenskaya. She died in Odessa in 1919 from influenza in her mid-twenties. Kholodnaya was rumoured to have worked as a Bolshevik spy towards the end of her life.

Most of the film is produced in conventional full colour. However, the "secret film" produced by Viktor of White Guard atrocities, included when he screens it for Olga, uses monochrome: these sections are indeed interspliced with contemporary Russian Civil War footage. In addition, scenes from the silent movie featuring Olga sometimes appear in the background in "black and white".

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