Forgotten Tune for the Flute (1987)
Original title: Забытая мелодия для флейты
Forgotten Tune for the Flute is a 1987 Russian-language drama movie directed by Eldar Ryazanov, with a running time of 2h 14m. It stars Leonid Filatov, Tatyana Dogileva and Irina Kupchenko.
A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.
Cast
- Leonid Filatov as Leonid Semyonovich Filimonov
- Tatyana Dogileva as Lida
- Irina Kupchenko as Elena Fedorovna
- Vsevolod Sanayev as Yaroslav Stepanovich
- Olga Volkova as Evgenia Danilovna Surova
- Sergei Artsybashev as Aleksey Yakimovich
- Aleksandr Shirvindt as Myasoyedov
- Valentin Gaft as Odinkov
- Elena Mayorova as Luysya
- Vatslav Dvorzhetsky as Semyon Filimonov
- Yelena Fadeyeva as Leonid's mother
- Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy as Sasha