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Machekha

  • 1973
  • 1h 24m
IMDb RATING
7.4/10
331
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Machekha (1973)
Drama

The news suddenly comes to the family of Pavel Olevantsev that his daughter has been orphaned by another woman. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, and his wife could not kno... Read allThe news suddenly comes to the family of Pavel Olevantsev that his daughter has been orphaned by another woman. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, and his wife could not know about it either.The news suddenly comes to the family of Pavel Olevantsev that his daughter has been orphaned by another woman. Pavel did not know about the existence of the girl, and his wife could not know about it either.

  • Director
    • Oleg Bondarev
  • Writers
    • Mariya Khalfina
    • Edgar Smirnov
  • Stars
    • Tatyana Doronina
    • Leonid Nevedomsky
    • Nadezhda Fedosova
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.4/10
    331
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Oleg Bondarev
    • Writers
      • Mariya Khalfina
      • Edgar Smirnov
    • Stars
      • Tatyana Doronina
      • Leonid Nevedomsky
      • Nadezhda Fedosova
    • 1User review
    • 1Critic review
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    Tatyana Doronina
    Tatyana Doronina
    • Shura Olevantseva
    Leonid Nevedomsky
    Leonid Nevedomsky
    • Pavel Olevantsev
    Nadezhda Fedosova
    Nadezhda Fedosova
    • Anfisa Vasilayevna
    Vladimir Samoylov
    Vladimir Samoylov
    • Viktor Vikentyevich
    Yelena Kosteryova
    • Sveta Olevantseva
    • (as Lena Kosteryova)
    Aleksandr Dalyokiy
    • Yurka Olevantsev
    • (as Sasha Dalyokiy)
    Tamara Sovchi
    Tamara Sovchi
    • Polina
    O. Antipyuk
    Aleksey Bakhar
    Aleksey Bakhar
    • Lyosha
    • (as L. Bakhar)
    Marina Gavrilko
    Marina Gavrilko
    • tyotka Darya
    • (as M. Gavrilko)
    Khlopkova
    • Alyonka Olevantseva
    • (as Ira Khlopkova)
    Svetlana Konovalova
    Svetlana Konovalova
    • zhena Mikheicha
    • (as S. Konovalova)
    Lidiya Korolyova
    Lidiya Korolyova
      Vera Kuznetsova
      Vera Kuznetsova
      • Yekaterina Alekseyevna
      • (as V. Kuznetsova)
      Viktor Markin
      Viktor Markin
      • Selskiy vrach
      • (as V. Markin)
      Viktor Shulgin
      Viktor Shulgin
      • Melnikov Mikheyevich
      • (as V. Shulgin)
      Natalya Shvets
      • Lyudmila Yakovlena
      • (as N. Shvets)
      Boris Yurchenko
      Boris Yurchenko
      • Zhitel posyolka
      • (as B. Yurchenko)
      • Director
        • Oleg Bondarev
      • Writers
        • Mariya Khalfina
        • Edgar Smirnov
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      8/10
      More to this movie than meets the eye
      The fact that Tatyana Doronina has the lead in this movie may lead the casual observer to assume that this a borderline schlocky tearjerker, which was more or less her stock in trade. A summary of the main plot may encourage that assumption, too - Sasha Olevantseva, a housewife on a collective farm, has just moved with her husband and two children into a brand new apartment, which if you lived in Russia in the fifties was a dream come true. A letter comes from a village in the far north, announcing that her husband had fathered a child with another woman, and the child's mother has died. Will you take the child, or turn her over to an orphanage? They adopt the child, which is when the drama starts.

      But the story is not so simple. The movie is in fact a very nuanced performance with a variety of sub-themes floating around in the background. On the one hand, the village believes that Sasha is simple-minded for even agreeing to take the child - even her bear of a husband begins to think so, and her own witch of a mother considers it to be a confirmation of Sasha's stupidity and encourages Sasha's own son to pick on the girl. On the other hand, the village officials suspect that Sasha, like a typical stepmother, must be abusing the child. And the child herself is a cipher - totally unresponsive while Sasha does her best to make her feel loved, despite the opposition she personally has to face on all sides. A good movie. Unfortunately, English subs don't seem to be available for the movie any more.
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      • Release date
        • June 1973 (United States)
      • Country of origin
        • Soviet Union
      • Language
        • Russian
      • Also known as
        • The Stepmother
      • Production company
        • Mosfilm
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 24 minutes
      • Color
        • Color
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 2.35 : 1

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