Awards : Grand prix du Festival de Cinéma de L'URSS, 1987
Prix de la FIPRESCI au Festival de Locarno, 1987
DVD with subtitles
Editor : Potemkine films. 2025. Titre : Kira Mouratova Coffret 5 fims.
Contenu et Bonus
- le Blu-ray du film Brèves rencontres
- le Blu-ray du film Les Longs Adieux
- le Blu-ray du film Parmi les pierres grises
- le Blu-ray du film Changement de destinée
- le Blu-ray du film Le syndrôme asthénique
Plot synopsis
This film was made and ready to be released in 1973. But it was “shelved” was finally released in 1987. It received a FIPRESCI award (International Press Award) at the Locarno Film Festival, and the Grand Prize of the All-Union Film Festival in Tbilisi in 1987.
A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grew up to become a teenager, he got tired of the nagging of her mother. One summer, he goes to visit his father in Novosibirsk, on the other side of the country. When he returns, his mother notices that Sasha had changed. She secretly reads a letter that Sasha received from his father and she finds out that Sasha doesn't want to live with her any longer. She cannot understand, she cannot accept. When Sasha realizes that she is suffering because of his wish to leave, he decides to stay.
