I Loved You (Russian: Я вас любил…, romanized: Ya vas lyubil...), is a 1968 Soviet comedy film directed by Ilia Frez and written by Mikhail Lvovsky. Produced by the Gorky Film Studio, it premiered on 29 January 1968[1] and, with 21,3 million viewers, became one of the Soviet box office leaders of that year.[1]
The film was internationally popular in Eastern Europe.[2] The film's topic was awakening romantic feelings in a group of Russian teenagers.[3]
Plot summary
15-year-old Kolya Golikov falls in love with Nadya Naumchenko, an aspiring teenage ballet dancer and a Choreography school student. Infatuated, he goes out of his way to impress her, among other things by perfume, cigarettes and his peculiar style of dancing too. Utter ridiculousness of his ways notwithstanding, Nadya seems to like the boy. Over-excited during the night walk, as the two approach the place she lives in, Kolya starts to behave towards her somewhat acquisitively. Taken aback, the girl declares herself to be totally disillusioned with him. "You do not seem interesting to me, not anymore!" she exclaims. Weeks pass. And Kolya, who's always been good at mathematics but bad at learning poems by heart, is so shattered by this fiasco as to impress his school examiners with passionate recital of "I Loved You...", Pushkin's famous paean to unrequited love.
Autumn comes and it's time for the older boy, Zhora, to be conscripted. He decides to spend his last evening together with his friends and takes them all to the concert in the local theatre. There Kolya sees Nadya dancing on stage. He is awe-struck and enchanted again. Minutes later, behind the curtains Nadya learns about Zhora's company being there in the audience. "And... is Kolya there too?" she can't help asking, leaving the finale open.
^Mira Liehm, Antonín J. Liehm The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945- 1977 Page 324 0520031571 "Among the more interesting films made for young viewers were the internationally popular I Loved You (Ya vas lyubil-1967) by Ilya Frez (b. 1909) and Oh, That Nastia (Okh, uzh eta Nastia-1972) by Georgi Pobedonostsev (b. 1910)."
^Peter Rollberg - Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema 2008 - Page 230 0810862689 FREZ, IL'IA ABRAMOVICH in the same institute's Directing Department, graduating in 1935. ... The director addressed the problems of a different age group in I Loved You (Ia vas liubil, 1967), a serious attempt to discuss the awakening of romantic feelings in teenagers."
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