Two in Love

Two in Love
Two in Love
	Russian: Двое
Directed by	Mikhail Bogin
Written by	Mikhail Bogin; Yuri Chulyukin;
Produced by	Khariy Kinstler
Starring	Victoria Fyodorova; Valentin Smirnitskiy;
Cinematography	Rihards Piks; Henriks Pilipsons;
Edited by	Elza Preisa
Music by	Romuald Grinblat
Production; company	Riga Film Studio
Release date	October 25, 1965;
Running time	37 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Two in Love (Russian: Двое, romanized: Dvoe) is a 1965 Soviet short romantic drama film directed by Mikhail Bogin.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The plot for the film was a story from the life of a deaf actress of the Moscow Mimics and Gesture Theatre Svetlana Sonina.^[4]

Plot

Sergey, a future musician and student at the Riga Conservatory, unexpectedly encounters Natasha, a strikingly silent brunette, on the street and falls in love with her. What begins as lighthearted flirtation soon takes a serious turn when he learns that Natasha has been deaf since the age of three. Sergey’s carefree attitude is confronted with an unexpected reality, forcing him to question his own conscience. To build a relationship with someone so sensitive and different, Sergey must undergo significant inner transformation.

Natasha, who works as a circus dancer and a lighting technician at the Theater of Mime and Gesture, makes an equally sincere effort to understand Sergey’s world of music, just as he tries to grasp her world of physical expression. However, for Natasha, who lost her hearing during the Great Patriotic War, sounds are tied to pain and fear. Even a classical music concert that Sergey takes her to becomes a harrowing experience, evoking memories of childhood bombings and the terrifying sounds of war. ^[5]