Introduction to Little Vera

Introduction to Little Vera | Appreciation | Reflection

1988 color film 138 minutes

Produced by Gorky Children's Film Studio of the Soviet Union.

Director: Vasily Pikula Screenplay: Marina Melic Photography: yevgeny Reznic Main Actors: Natalia Negoda (as Vera) lyudmila Zajceva (as Lida) Yuriy Nazarov (as Nikola Semenovich).

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Vera's father Nikolai Semenovich is a truck driver, and her mother Rita is a dispatcher in a textile factory. Vera's brother Victor is a young doctor who works in Moscow. Vera is the youngest daughter of this family. She just graduated from middle school.

This family of four is often noisy, but everyone doesn't want to open their hearts to others. Their apartment is like a serviced apartment. The relationship between people in the apartment seems essential on the surface, but it is not.

On this day, Vera's father, Nicola Semenovich, drove a truck along the highway, across the grassland and headed for the city. The sunshine in midsummer seems to have faded the color of the grassland. The grass became as yellow as the dust flying on the highway. ...

When the truck entered the city, Nicholas parked in the shade of a yard. As soon as he entered the door wearily, his wife Lida shouted at him:

"Go and see your daughter!" Rita scolded: "I graduated from high school, and I don't know what's going on in her mind ..."

It turned out that mother found dollars in Vera's pocket, which was a very serious matter in ordinary Soviet families. Also, the lie that my daughter went to college was exposed. Lift the porch but * * * at home.

"Vera!" Father cried, "think about what you are doing! Why are you angry with your mother! You didn't help her, but you were with your Cheskova! I also learned to smoke! "

"... why don't you feel ashamed! Your mother and I have been working at your age! "

"We tried to bring you and Victor up. Thankfully, Victor has a bright future. What about you? I don't want to do anything, I just know that I am hovering in front of the young man! "

Vera sat on the sofa with her hands in the pockets of her old printed gown, which was too short to cover her knees. She has long been used to her father's rough voice and her mother's scolding. She sat quietly, deaf to her father's lessons.

Parents think that their daughter is disobedient, while Vera tries her best to remain independent. She doesn't want to live like her parents, but she doesn't understand what another life is like. She always feels at a loss and confused.

In order to pass the boring days, Vera often makes her hair fluffy, learns to look like a fashionable girl, and goes to the outdoor dance floor of the park to vent noisily and make friends.

The outdoor dance floor is deep in the park. There are a large group of little boys outside, because they are not old enough to enter. The police drove them away and they stepped back and stopped. A policeman squeezed into the crowd and dragged two people out of the crowd. Vera likes this scene where something goes wrong and something goes wrong. She was excited about the inexplicable sense of expectation and excitement experienced by people around the dance floor.

Suddenly the siren sounded, the music stopped suddenly and the police ran into the dance floor. It turned out that several young people were at loggerheads. The dancers dispersed, some ran to the exit, others rushed to the place where the fight took place ... Vera ran along the avenue, rushed into the bushes and stopped breathing. The car sped by. Vera found someone smoking next to her. It turned out to be Sergei, a college student who just danced on the dance floor with his good friend Cheskova. That night, Vera went to his dormitory and spent the night with him.

The situation at home is still the same. Mother is exhausted by housework and things in the factory day after day, and father is drunk all day. Parents believe that only blame and quarrel can work on their daughter, and her daughter has long been used to what they have done, and she is still alone.

Victor is a doctor in Moscow. He came back to "educate" his sister on the orders of his parents. However, Victor also thinks that Vera has been difficult to discipline. Once, Victor saw Vera in Sergei's room in the university dormitory. Victor has known Sergei for a long time. He doesn't like him. But Vera has fallen in love with Sergei. In her view, Sergei comes from another world, and love brings her hope of getting rid of the boring daily life. She longs for another life. She thinks Sergei is the dawn of another life, and Vera wants to marry him. Sergei also fell in love with Vera. Faced with Victor's reproach, he announced that he would marry Vera.

Vera brought her beloved home. So the daily quarrel of this family has added new content. Father-in-law and future son-in-law cannot coexist peacefully. Day after day, mutual understanding between young people and old people has reached its peak. Tragedy finally happened: on Nicholas's birthday, he got drunk and stabbed his future son-in-law. ...

Sergei was seriously injured and was taken to the hospital. There seems to be nothing at home, so I quarrel and drink. The saddest thing is that Vera provided false evidence to the inspection organ according to her mother's wishes, saying that in the dispute between her father and Sergei, Sergei threatened her father with a knife first, and Sergei should bear the main responsibility.

Vera is in great pain She came to the hospital and asked Sergei for forgiveness. She explained, "We can't live without him, do you understand? Mom can't live without him. She is still ill, do you know? " However, Sergei was indifferent to Vera's betrayal.

The shadow of death hangs over these contradictory characters. Sergei was seriously injured; Feeling empty and desperate, Vera swallowed many sleeping pills. Thanks to Victor's timely rescue, she was saved from death.

Nicholas had a heart attack and was dying. ...

Distinguish and appreciate

"Little Villa" represents a new stage in the development of Soviet youth films.

Contemporary Soviet society is facing a series of acute problems. Young people have the sharpest sense of society, and youth films are naturally at the epicenter of the contemporary spiritual crisis in the Soviet Union.

The problem of youth and young heroes has always been in the vision of Soviet film artists. Young heroes in some classic works in the 1960s ("If this is love?" "I'm twenty years old", "There are such young people" and so on. ), they pursue truth in emotion, mutual relationship and code of conduct, but they still follow the established role norms and are consistent with the principles, moral norms and aesthetic ideals that society adheres to.

Several works in the 1980s (Little Villa, Little Messenger, Blackmailer, Temptation, etc.). Little Vera, as the representative, marks the beginning of a new stage of Soviet youth movies. This new stage, first of all, means a breakthrough in theme, which shows the strong rebellious mood of young film creators. These unconventional works are all stories and problems about young people. They express their lives with young people's favorite styles, popular clothes, music and common language, which shows the motivation of young people to try their best to maintain their individuality in a standardized society. The young heroes on the screen are asking the older generation to recognize them and take them seriously. These films boldly touched on some sharp problems in the real life of the Soviet Union and showed young artists' thinking on the dark side of society.

"Little Villa" caused a sensation as soon as it came out, not only because of the naked scenes that the audience were not used to, but first of all, the film showed bold resistance to everything that distorted, fooled and destroyed the hearts of young people. Young artists show young people's contempt for traditional experience and moral norms in their films, but they can't convince young people. It can be said that the preparation of Soviet film creators in contacting and expressing new youth social groups seems to be insufficient.

The writer and director of Little Villa 1983 graduated from the Soviet Film Academy. Chmelik graduated from Gabrielovich's studio; Pikula is a student in Khutsiyev. Little Vera is the first work of these two young artists.

The actor who played the role in Little Villa handled the image of the protagonist very successfully. Nazarov and Zajceva, the older generation of acting actors, are quite skilled in their performance skills in Little Villa. They raised the film to the level of successful tragicomedy with limited material. Nicoda, who plays Vera, graduated from the actor training class of Gorky Model Art Theatre in Moscow. 1986. Sokolov, who plays Sergey, is still studying at sturgeon Theatre Academy. The two young heroes they play, Vera and Sergey, are real and have problems. Natalia Nigoda became a dazzling star in the Soviet film industry because of Vera.

Natalia Negoda later made her debut in the film War. Gina Chika, an innocent, enthusiastic, upright and brave ninth-grade girl, left a deep impression on the audience. Soon, because of her successful creation in Little Vera, she was rated as the best actress in the whole Soviet Union by Soviet Screen Magazine, and won the "Carney" professional award of the Soviet Film Workers Association from 65438 to 0988.

Natalie Negoda's success in playing Vera is of course related to the dramatic fate of the film: "Little Vera" almost died at first because of the lack of shooting funds, and later it was delayed to meet the audience because of the exposure of the lens. By the time it was finally released, the fate of the film had evolved into a sensational event in the Soviet film industry. However, the guarantee of Nigoda's success mainly comes from her solid artistic foundation. She was born in an artistic family and was influenced by art since she was a child. With skillful performance skills, keen observation of life and selfless pursuit of art, she vividly reproduces the image of a girl with a kind heart and a low cultural accomplishment who yearns for happiness among the ordinary citizens in contemporary Soviet society. Natalia Negoda "dares to make herself look bad", which makes the audience feel that Little Vera is a real person, not a model or role model in previous youth films.

"Little Vera" caused a sensation among the audience, but critics gave it mixed reviews. Some critics believe that the director decorated the life of the movie hero with naturalistic hypothetical symbols. Of course, as a young artist's debut, Little Vera is not fluent in the use of film language and slightly rough in production. It is superficial and lacks in-depth analysis in reflecting the social problems of the Soviet Union today. However, it should be fair to say that Villa truly reproduces a cross section of the life of ordinary people in the Soviet Union. It can be said that before it, the audience had never seen such a family, been exposed to such problems and met such a hero on the Soviet screen. Rong Hu