Movielogr
Guard Me, My Talisman (1986)
Directed by Roman Balayan
Overview
The setting for this off-beat drama of love and jealousy is the Pushkin Poetry Festival in Boldino. Liosha and his wife Tania are walking through the plush forest around Boldino when a mysterious figure pops up from behind a tree and asks the couple a question on an esoteric point of Pushkin scholarship. From that strange beginning, the man, whose name is Klimov, starts to ease himself into the couple’s private space, and trouble ensues. Complementing this story is the festival itself, enactments of Pushkin’s works, and emotional debates among the festival-goers over the meaning of his poetry.
Length 74 minutes
Actors
Oleg Yankovskiy | Tatyana Drubich | Aleksandr Abdulov | Aleksandr Zbruev | Aleksandr Adabashyan | Булат Окуджава | Mikhail Kozakov