Pavel and Lyalya (A Jerusalem Romance)

(1998)

★ 10 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1998

Runtime: 29 мин

Country: Russia

Director: Виктор Косаковский

Cast: Людмила Станукинас, Павел Коган, Герц Франк

Plot

“Like the right and left hand Your soul is close to my soul We are sealed shut, blissfully and warmly, Like the right and left wing…” The life and art of Pavel Kogan and Lyudmila Stanukinas, two famous Leningrad documentary filmmakers, can best be expressed by the Tsvetaeva stanza cited above. They are the main characters of this film, which their student Viktor Kossakovsky shot during Pavel Kogan’s final months. For Lyudmila Stanukinas, Lyalya, as those close to her called her, her husband was her only reason for existence. She was with him until the end and held onto his extinguishing life as much as she could.