Молодая жена

Filʹm "Molodai͡a zhena", sni͡atyĭ po rasskazu Iriny Velembovskoĭ "Za kamennoĭ stenoĭ", stal luchshim filʹmom 1980 goda po oprosu zhurnala "Sovetskiĭ ėkran". Konechno, v nem igrali zvezdy sovetskogo kinematografa - Anna Kamenkova, Vladlen Biri͡ukov, Galina Makarova, Sergeĭ Prokhanov. Rezhisserom byl Leonid Menaker, avtor mnozhestva populi͡arnykh i li͡ubimykh kinokartin. No vri͡ad li filʹm byl by uspeshnym, ne budʹ rasskaz, stavshiĭ osnovoĭ st͡senarii͡a, stolʹ talantlivo napisannym. Glavnai͡a geroini͡a, Mani͡a, vykhodit zamuzh ne po li͡ubvi, a ot beznadezhnosti i otchai͡anii͡a. Za muzhem - vdovt͡som, osnovatelʹnym i krepkim khozi͡ainom, - ona budet kak za kamennoĭ stenoĭ. No vot tolʹko stenu ėtu khochetsi͡a otodvinutʹ, chtoby uvidetʹ solnt͡se, nebo, svobodu. Poslevoennyĭ byt - i selʹskiĭ, i gorodskoĭ - Velembovskai͡a risuet masterski. I geroi ee - neizmenno zhivye, nastoi͡ashchie, ne kinoshnye i ne knizhnye. Ėto otnositsi͡a ko vsem rasskazam i povesti͡am, voshedshim v ėtot sbornik.

The film "The Young Wife", based on Irina Velembovskaya's short story "Behind the Stone Wall", became the best film of 1980 according to a survey by the Soviet Screen magazine. Of course, the stars of Soviet cinema played in it — Anna Kamenkova, Vladlen Biryukov, Galina Makarova, Sergei Prokhanov. The director was Leonid Menaker, the author of many popular and beloved films. But it is unlikely that the film would have been successful if the story that became the basis of the script had not been so brilliantly written. The main character, Manya, marries not for love, but out of hopelessness and despair. She will be like a stone wall behind her widower husband, a solid and strong master. But I just want to push back this wall to see the sun, the sky, freedom. Velembovskaya paints the post—war life, both rural and urban, masterfully. And her characters are always alive, real, not cinematic or bookish. This applies to all the short stories and novellas included in this collection.