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LONELY WOMAN SEARCHING FOR A LIFE COMPANION. Preferably a single Moscow male, but not this one: he insults, robs, then leeches on the lonely 43-year-old who placed the ad. Director Vyacheslav Krishtofovich locates Soviet malaise in this wry fable of a modern Soviet woman desperately seeking Comrade Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soviet Sampler | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

...danger is in believing Klimov and his colleagues can produce an ideal creative climate. But Soviet filmmakers know not to expect too much. In Vyacheslav Krishtofovich's poignant comedy Lonely Woman Searching for a Life Companion, a seamstress places a personal ad on walls around her town. The results are dire. The first man to answer the ad insults her, tries to rob her and then leeches on her kind nature. A trio of Young Pioneers, encouraged to take pity on the "sick and the lonely," offers to take her for walks in the countryside. She nearly loses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Censors' Day Off | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

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