Film

Faratyev's Fantasies

1982 · 2h 24m · Comedy · Drama · TV Movie

A funny and sad story of mismatched love, family and life surprises

IMDb

7.9

Averbakh's adaptation of a play by Alla Sokolova, Faratyev's Fantasies is the story of a man surrounded by four woman, Faratyev, he is madly in love with on, Aleksandra, compassionately take care of another, her aunt, and is indifferent to the other two, Aleksandra's mother, and her sister, Lyuba. The world of these characters are that of dreams, each one's dream in interconnected to that of other, and each respond differently to it. Faratyev is a man who dreams, he live in the world of fantasies. Aleksandra and her mother listen to him, but do not take him seriously, his aunt listen to him, believe him, but do not encourage him, only Lyuba understand him, but to him, she is a mere child, he is madly in love with her sister, Aleksandra, she is a realist, she does not love him, but for sake of her own prosperity and that of her mother and sister, she agree to marry him, only to run away with the mysterious Bedhudov...

Marina Neyolova

Aleksandra

Andrey Mironov

Faryatyev

Zinaida Sharko

Mother

Liliya Gritsenko

Aunt

Maksim Britvenkov

boy

Yekaterina Durova

Luba

Elena Stavrogina

Lyuba

• Ilya AverbakhDirector · Writer
• Aleksandr PikunovProducer
• Dmitriy DolininDirector of Photography
• Alfred SchnittkeOriginal Music Composer
• Ye. SadovskayaEditor

Release date

January 25, 1982

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

2h 24m

Genres

Comedy, Drama, TV Movie