Walking the Streets of Moscow
- sombre
- measured
Sombre, measured, measured drama / slice-of-life, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →On a stopover in Moscow, a young writer Volodya makes friends with Kolya, who is returning home from a hard night shift. Just as Kolya is about to take a rest, he is met by his old friend Sasha, who wants help getting a deferral from military service so that he can get married.
Our read · Walking the Streets of Moscow (1965) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · slice-of-life entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Walking the Streets of Moscow
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