Film

The Garden of Desires

1987 · 1h 38m · Drama

IMDb

7.7

The film is set during the last summer before the Great Patriotic War. Three sisters are coming to stay with their grandmother in the village. They imagine the world as a vast and charming "Garden of desires" and all members of the household are waiting for Asya's birthday. Asya has a sense of foreboding regarding the impending grief. Guests come to visit but none of them are her parents. She still does not know that her father was declared an enemy of the people, that tomorrow she will not see her mother and that the war is approaching.

Marianna Velizheva

Asya

Irina Shustayeva

Valeriya

Olga Zarkhina

Tomka

Galina Makarova

Grandmother

Mikhail Brylkin

Grandfather

Igor Donskoy

Innokenti

Aleksandr Feklistov

Pavel

Yury Pavlov

Likho

Lev Prygunov

Kirill

Pyotr Kolbasin

Ivan

Svetlana Tormakhova

Asya's Mother

Kira Muratova

Sorceress

• Ali KhamraevDirector
• Sergei LazutkinScreenplay
• Vladimir KlimovDirector of Photography
• Vera OstrinskayaEditor

Release date

January 1, 1987

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 38m

Genres

Drama