On 31 March, Sunday, citizens of Pale will have the opportunity to see yet another film of Russian Film Week, this time it is the film called ‘A Driver for Vera’ (Voditel dlya Very) directed by Pavel Chukhraj.
The film is set during the Khrushchev Thaw in Soviet Crimea, Ukraine, and concentrates on a young cadet in the Red Army named Viktor (Igor Petrenko) who becomes a chauffeur for a general (Bohdan Stupka) and begins a relationship with the general’s disabled and volatile daughter, Vera (Alena Babenko). Viktor becomes involuntarily involved in a plot by the KGB whereby KGB agent Saveliev (Andrei Panin) pushes Viktor to spy on the general for KGB purposes.As the tension develops around Viktor’s relationship with Vera and his conflicted reasons for pursuing it (brought into focus by the sexual tension between Viktor and the maid, Lida (Yekaterina Yudina), and her scathing accusations about his motives); the KGB, using Agent Saveliev, plots to take down and ultimately kill the general. Nobody is safe.
The cast of the film: Igor Petrenko, Alena Babenko, Bogdan Stupka, Marina Golub.
The film will be shown in the amphitheatre of Faculty of Philosophy of Pale at 7.30 p.m. and the entrance is free for all.
