SHAKESPEARE

Alternative title

You Wouldn’t Even Dream It ... Love and Lies You Have Not Seen It Even in a Dream You Never Dreamt

Synopsis

Feature film based loosely on Romeo and Juliet. Two high school teenagers fall in love but their parents do not approve and resort to deception to separate them.

Language

Russian

Country

Former USSR

Medium

Film

Technical information

Colour / Sound

Year of release

1980

Duration

86 mins

Credits

Director

Ilya Frez

Cinematographer

Gasan Tutunov

Screenplay

Galina Shcherbakova; Ilya Frez

Music

Alexei Rybnikov

Cast

Nikita Mikhajlovsky	Roman Lavochkin (Romeo)
Tatyana Aksyuta	Katya Shevchenko (Juliet)
Albert Filozov	Kostya, Roman’s father (Montague)
Inna Miroshnichenko	Lyudmila Sergeevna (Lady Capulet)
Lidiya Fedoseyeva Shukshina	Vera, Roman’s mother (Lady Montague)

Additional Details

Production type

Fiction Films

Plays

Romeo and Juliet

Keywords

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

General

Based on a story by Galina Shcherbakova. The catalogue entry in the Russian Cinema Council website notes that in the story and in the original screenplay Katya was named Julia ‘yet the censors found it to be an attempt on plagiarising Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’.

Production Company

Name

Gorky Film Studios

Online Retailer

Name

ruscico.com

Email

info@ruscico.com

Web

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Phone

+7 (4950 1075700

Fax

+7 (495) 1810572

Address

Russian Cinema Council
S. Eisenstein Street
Moscow 129226
Russia