The eldest son (film)

Two unlucky young people - a student Vladimir Busygin and his random friend Semyon Sevostyanov, nicknamed Silva - escorted two girls whom they had just met in a cafe, home to the suburbs, in the hope of a continued relationship. Having been refused, they run back to the station and are late for the last train. Finding themselves on a cold autumn night in a strange town, they try to beg for someone to spend the night, but to no avail. In one of the windows they see a father and a son, rapidly exploring the relationship. Vladimir, who accidentally overhears the conversation, comes up with an adventurous idea - to be called the illegitimate son of the landlord and, thus, solve the problem with dinner and overnight.

Andrei Grigorievich Sarafanov, clarinet musician (plays in a dance club and movie theater before the show), a good-natured man who raised his two children without a wife, admits his illegitimate son as an unexpected guest. His reaction is so sincere and touching that conscience awakens in Vladimir. In addition, he himself grew up without a father, and Sarafanov’s attitude makes him involuntarily imbued with mutual feelings. He cannot deceive such unlimited trust and unexpectedly understands that he is not indifferent to the problems of this family, the existence of which he had not even suspected of yesterday.

The youngest son of Sarafanov, Vasenka, with all the ardor of youth, is unrequitedly in love with Natalia, a woman living in the neighborhood. However, Silva intervenes in their difficult relationship, who secretly from Vasenka begins to successfully take care of Natalia, but only in order to pleasantly pass the time.

Simultaneously with this love story, another one is played out: Busygin falls in love with Nina’s Sarafanov’s daughter, but since he is a “brother,” he cannot openly admit to her and is silently tormented, jealous of her to her fiancé, an aviation radio engineer.

Unable to endure, in the end, his role, Vladimir confesses to all of Nina, who also unaccountably imbued with not quite sisterly sympathy for her newly-born "brother." They are pondering how to inform Andrei Grigorievich. Silva appears at this moment: Vasenka, finding him visiting Natalya, out of jealousy tried to set her house on fire by throwing a lit box of household matches out the window. A quarrel flares up between Silva and Busygin, and Silva tells the truth to the father Sarafanov in revenge. Vladimir is forced to confess everything. Andrei Grigoryevich refuses to believe this, sincerely loving his “eldest son”, and forgives him this deception: “Whatever it is, but I consider you, Volodya, my son. You are all my children because I love you. I am good or bad, but I love you. And this is the main thing. ”

• The film was shot on the film of the Shostka chemical plant " Svema ".

• The film includes a prelude No. 5 in G minor (op. 23) by Sergei Rachmaninov . The idea of ​​its use belongs to Oleg Karavaychuk , who was invited by Melnikov as a composer, but did not write music for the film, but considered that this work most closely matches the spirit of the picture.
• In the second series, in the feast scene, the hero of Mikhail Boyarsky sings and plays the guitar, the then popular song from the movie “ Generals of the Sand Quarries ”. Boyarsky picked up his repertoire in the picture himself ^[1] .
• During the filming of the picture, four weddings of actors took place: Svetlana Kryuchkova ( Yuri Veksler ), Nikolai Karachentsov ( Lyudmila Porgina ), Mikhail Boyarsky ( Larisa Luppian ), Nikolai Nikolsky ^{[2] [3] [4]} .

• 1976 - The Intervision Prize and the prize for best script in the section of dramatic works at the XIII International Festival of Television Films in Prague ^[1] .

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• "The eldest son" (neopr.) . TV channel "House of Cinema" . First channel. World Wide Web. Date of treatment July 30, 2013. Archived on August 19, 2013.
• "The eldest son" (neopr.) . Television and feature films . Channel "Culture". Date of treatment July 30, 2013. Archived on August 19, 2013.
• "The eldest son" (neopr.) . Description of the movie . Close-up.ru site is the official site of the Krupnyi plan plan. Date of treatment May 2, 2014.
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