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...hint that such naivete might be fulfilled. It will come, of course, embodied in a lover who can be one with all the personas Katerina has created--a knowing idealist, a lover and an admirer of her work. And, impossibly, he does come. His name is Gosha (Alexei Batalov) and he is as too-good-to-be-true and as utterly captivating as Bogart ever was. He is a fascinating character and a joy to watch. He is a man with a subtle sense of humor and an extraordinary sense of confidant cool. His romance with Katerina, their trials...
...time and perspective effectively symbolizes the stealthy passing of the years: one day you look up and find your child almost grown, your career at its peak and a strange emptiness in your heart. In Katerina's case, the void is filled when she meets Gosha (Alexei Batalov), a magical figure on the order of the Alan Bates character in An Unmarried Woman. The difference is that he has none of the latter's squishy glamour. Gosha is a workingman, an upholder of traditional male values, however humorously he states them, and a man who insists that...
Roland Bykov, best known in Russia as a stage director, is perfectly cast as Akakievich, and Aleksei Batalov, who was an actor in such films as Nine Days of One Year and The Cranes Are Flying, directs the film as a memorable character portrait, faithful in spirit and exquisite in detail. Looking like a wistful hand-carved troll, Bykov is gently hilarious when he first ventures out to show off his coat, cautiously dodging snowflakes, and ineffably tragic later as he stumbles through the white night mourning his loss at every window. Everything is right with The Overcoat, except that...
Sounds like Jack Lemmon and Kim Novak in nothing very much? It isn't. It's Aleksei Batalov and Tamara Lavrova in a fascinating new Russian film. Made in 1962, while Khrushchev was still in the Kremlin, Nine Days suggests more clearly than any previous Russian picture how far creeping liberalism has managed to advance in the last decade...
...Lady with the Dog" stars Ya Savina in her first major film appearance and Alexei Batalov, who starred in "The Cranes are Flying." For the next three weeks, the Brattle will present a three week retrospective showing of Russian films since...