SIX O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING AFTER THE WAR (V Shest Chasov Vechera Posle Voyny) (1945) - ♦♦♦♦

Directed by - Ivan Pyryev
 
Written by - Viktor Gusev
 
Starring - Yevgeni Samojlov, Marina Ladynina, Ivan Lyubznov
 
 
 
"An artillery officer falls in love with a woman and agree to meet her on a bridge in Moscow at six o’clock in the evening the day after the end of the war. Though musicals are not generally identified with popular perception of the cinema of the Soviet Union, it was indeed as popular as it was in the Western world, though more highly politicised and even used for propagandist ends. Pyryev is a filmmaker who built a reputation out of making this kind of films, and Six O'Clock the Evening after the War may be his best film and certainly his most universally appealing work. Poetic in its simplicity and achieving its message of peace and love with a certain thoughtless romanticism, this film is more than a little impressive and may just be an underrated gem of early Eastern European cinema."
 
 
Drama, Soviet Union