Seasons
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Seasons
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The 1950s. Residents of the small provincial town of Ensk are preparing for the New Year.
Dorofeya Kupriyanova, chairwoman of the city executive committee, is expecting her beloved firstborn to join her family at the holiday table. Her son has grown up selfish, unwilling to work and dreaming of the high life. This is not at all how Dorofeya, once a factory worker and now the mayor of the city, expected him to be. But a mother's heart cannot be controlled.
Factory director Stepan Bortashevich has always dreamed of being right and honest. But he is forced to lie, betray, and wriggle out of it. And only with his children is he his former self—an ardent Komsomol member, an incorrigible romantic, and an optimist.
This leap year will bring fateful changes in the lives of the characters. Not always happy, but always necessary. Illusions disappear, unnecessary connections are severed, tightly tied knots are cut, and finally, life goes on.
In 1961, the film "Leap Year" was released on Soviet screens, in which Innokenty Smoktunovsky played one of his first roles.
Dorofeya Kupriyanova, chairwoman of the city executive committee, is expecting her beloved firstborn to join her family at the holiday table. Her son has grown up selfish, unwilling to work and dreaming of the high life. This is not at all how Dorofeya, once a factory worker and now the mayor of the city, expected him to be. But a mother's heart cannot be controlled.
Factory director Stepan Bortashevich has always dreamed of being right and honest. But he is forced to lie, betray, and wriggle out of it. And only with his children is he his former self—an ardent Komsomol member, an incorrigible romantic, and an optimist.
This leap year will bring fateful changes in the lives of the characters. Not always happy, but always necessary. Illusions disappear, unnecessary connections are severed, tightly tied knots are cut, and finally, life goes on.
In 1961, the film "Leap Year" was released on Soviet screens, in which Innokenty Smoktunovsky played one of his first roles.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series How We Lived: The Best of Soviet Prose