Kira Muratova: Brief Encounters (1967)
Starring Vladimir Vysotskii, Kira Muratova, Nina Ruslanova. Script: Muratova and Leonid Zhukhnovitskii
Description: Muratova pushed beyond the limits of sexual honesty in this film, starring Vysotsky as Maksim, a geologist who has abandoned his city life and wife for the freedom of the expedition. He has traded his comforts and lovely wife for the freedom of the mosquito-ridden (and politics-ridden) open field. His wife Valentina (played by Muratova herself), is a model Soviet woman who is imprisoned in her successes and conventionalities. She cannot free herself from her love for the charming rogue Maksim, who comes and goes and he pleases, whose young girlfriend even insinuates herself into Valentina's home, but who introduces a whiff of freedom into her life of falsehood. Vysotsky sang fragments of several of his songs for the movie.