| Andersen: Life Without Love (2006) Andersen: Life Without Love (2006) Directed by: Eldar Ryazanov Date of birth: 18 November 1927, Samara, USSR (now Russia) Writing credits: Eldar Ryazanov Music by: Aleksei Rybnikov Country: Russia | Italy | Germany Language: Russian Color: Color Runtime: 172 min. Released: 2006 Genre: Drama This film is fantastically-made, beautifully-acted, and has a wonderful musical score. But more than anything else, it is eye-opening and heart-breaking. You can appreciate a biographical film - "Andersen: Life Without Love" - about the legendary writer from Denmark, storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. You will learn about the main women in the life of this great man, whom he loved, but they do not reciprocate. One of them was the famous opera singer Jenny Lind of Sweden, and the second was Henrietta, the daughter of Admiral Marine Volf... The film tells the story of the life and creative work of a conflicted genius -- a happy, unlucky, ill-fated favorite of fortune. The story revolves around the relationship of Andersen and the two principle women in his life. It's about his unrequited passionate love for the famous Swedish singer Jenni Lind, and his sentimental affection for Admiral Volf's daughter Henrietta, who had been in love with him for many years. The film presents a man who was unpretentious yet vain, kind yet stingy, generous yet petty, strange and yet naive... -- intercinema.ru Cast: Sergey Migitsko, Stanislav Ryadinskiy, Ivan Kharatyan ... |
