Brief Encounters

About Brief Encounters

Country girl Nadia moves to the city and becomes a maid in Valya's apartment. Valya, who is a member of the local District Committee, does not know that Nadia fell in love with her currently absent husband, a geologist named Maksim, when he had visited Nadia's village during a recent expedition.

Kira Muratova's Brief Encounters is a 1967 romance film.

Nina Ruslanova takes the lead as Nadya, Kira Muratova as Valentina Ivanovna, Vladimir Vysotsky as Maxim, and Yelena Bazilskaya as (as L. Bazilskaya). Released in December 1967, it runs 96 minutes.

The screenplay is by Kira Muratova and Leonid Zhukhovitsky. American members can watch it on Criterion Channel and Klassiki.