Love in russian

Former large party functionary Valerian Petrovich Mukhin decides to break with the past: move to the village and become a farmer. He meets the farmer Katerina, who has been living here since birth, and leaves her already ex-wife. Mukhin promises his woman to stop drinking and start a new life. He meets with another farmer, former Afghan officer Viktor Kurlygin and his wife Tatyana. Next to them, in the past, an urban couple, Polina and Mikhail, start farming. Polina came to the village to sell the house left after her aunt’s death, and she stayed here to live. Michael is impersonating Pauline’s wife.

The six main characters begin to equip their economy, but difficulty arises. They have to confront the criminal authority of Gavrilov. On the land that the farmers began to cultivate, sources of mineral water were discovered, and the bandits decided to unceremoniously pick them up. Farmers first try to resolve the matter in a legal way, but the local police are bribed. The bandits begin to intimidate the farmers, and then the heroes take up arms (find the gun remaining from the war) and restore justice.

• Evgeny Matveev - Valerian Petrovich Mukhin
• Galina Polskikh - Katerina Ivanovna
• Victor Rakov - Mikhail
• Larisa Udovichenko - Tatyana, a refugee from Dushanbe
• Olga Egorova - Polina Ivanovna Krylova
• Nikita Dzhigurda - Viktor Ivanovich Kurlygin
• Georgy Martirosyan - Gavrilov, former deputy prosecutor of the region
• Valentina Titova - Valentina Nikolaevna, first wife Mukhina
• Alexander Potapov - Egorov, chairman of the collective farm
• Nina Agapova - Anna Alexandrovna, mother of Tatiana
• Oleg Ilyukhin - Victor, son of Tatyana
• Alyona Tarasova - Natasha, Tatyana's daughter
• Anatoly Vedenkin - police captain
• Valentina Berezutskaya - resting
• Victor Lazarev - resting
• Nikolay Smorchkov - man
• Victor Uralsky - a man at the wake
• Maxim Konovalov - bulldozer driver

• Script writer: Valentin Chernykh
• Director: Evgeny Matveev
• Sound engineer: Eldar Shakhverdiyev
• Operator: Viktor Shestoperov
• Artist: Denis Kladienko
• Composers: Vladimir Komarov , Evgeny Ptichkin

At the meeting of Polina and Mikhail in the first scene of the first film, Polina says that she is going to the homeland of her ancestors in the Pskov province, while the credits say thanks to the residents of the village of Trubino, Kaluga Region, for participating in the filming of the film.

• “To love in Russian” on the site “Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema”
• Review by Sergey Kudryavtsev
• “Play in Russian” Andrey Kravchenko