The Garden of Desires

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The Garden of Desires (1988)

Directed by Ali Khamraev

Drama · 1h 38m

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.

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Cast

M
Marianna Velizheva Asya
I
Irina Shustayeva Valeriya
O
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

Crew

Director
Ali Khamraev
Screenplay
Sergei Lazutkin
Director of Photography
Vladimir Klimov
Editor
Vera Ostrinskaya

Details

Original title
Сад желаний
Release date
1988-09-01
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
Drama
Original language
RU
Spoken languages
Russian
Countries
Soviet Union