Ya shagayu po Moskve

Fun little film with some views of Moscow, silly fun and bit of youthful mini-drama.

A pleasant and indeed rather delightful movie about young folk figuring out their lives in the charming world of 1960s Moscow. On the other hand, Aleksei Loktev would be killed in a car accident, the pretty Galina Polskikh had been orphaned by the age of 8 and grew up in abject poverty, and the writer Gennadi Shpalikov, who would direct one film (entitled Long Happy Life), was an alcoholic who committed suicide at the age of 37. Don't let that spoil your enjoyment of this little movie though.

In a time when everywhere in the world cinema was turning to young people, this Soviet contribution interestingly portrays the youth at its center as cultured rather than disaffected or delinquent. And guess what? It's still a really good movie. What do you know...