A Black Rose Is an Emblem of Sorrow, a Red Rose an Emblem of Love

(1990)

★ 6.4 IMDb · 22 votes

Genres: Fantasy, Comedy, Romance, Drama

Year: 1990

Runtime: 139 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Сергей Соловьёв

Cast: Татьяна Друбич, Александр Абдулов, Александр Збруев, Людмила Савельева, Александр Баширов, Михаил Данилов, Юрий Шумило, Илья Иванов, Михаил Розанов, Assan Kuiatte

Plot

The story happens mainly around "The Old Arbat Street" in the center of Moscow, where always concentrate vendors, poor young artists and musicians. The hero of this film is a boy named Mitiya,who lives with eccentric elder friend in an apartment house on "The Old Arbat". In fact, people who then appear around Mitiya are all unique, eccentric and the space of the apartment house begins to have an unrealistic character as a miniature of unstable society in the end of Soviet Union.