Where are you, knights? (1971)

The film became the directorial debut of Leonid Bykov at the Kyiv Film Studio named after Alexander Dovzhenko in 1971.
Young musician Evgeny Kovalchuk falls in love with aeroathlete Yulia. The feelings are mutual, but Yulia does not dare to open up to Evgeniy. And here the famous but not yet old intriguer Doctor of Sciences Kresovsky (Leonid Bykov) stands in his way, also counting on Yulia’s reciprocity. Two knights of the same woman jump on rapiers and the duel ends with the wounding of the doctor of sciences. Because of the intrigues of the beaten doctor, Zhenya will be expelled from the institute's circles.
Creative Group:
Director: Leonid Bykov;
Cameraman: Vladimir Voitenko;
Scriptwriter: Genrikh Ryabkin;
Production designer: Georgy Prokopets;
Composer: Igor Poklad.
Cast:
Leonid Bykov - Igor Vladimirovich Kresovsky, scientist;
Alexander Khaletsky - Zhenya Kovalchuk;
Elena Bratslavskaya - Yulia Yatsenko;
Vitaly Doroshenko - Alik Larin;
Sergey Gurzo - Vanya Samokha;
Natalya Vorobyova - Lena, Alika's girlfriend, Yulia's friend;
Igor Dmitriev - Kim Alekseevich Ermilov, scientist, Kresovsky’s co-author on scientific work;
Irina Gubanova - Olga Viktorovna;
Viktor Baykov - Egor Frantsevich Golubchik, Zhenya's neighbor in the apartment;
Sergey Filippov - Arkady Petrovich Bilonos;
Alexey Smirnov - waterer;
Yuri Timoshenko - surgeon;
Malvina Shvidler - mother of Zhannochka Sitnikova;
Lyudmila Sosyura - Nina Petrovna Tishchenko, police lieutenant;
Borislav Brondukov - police sergeant;
Georgiy Georgiou is a neighbor of Kovalchuk and Golubchik;
Nikolai Yakovchenko - neighbor of Kovalchuk and Golubchik;
Oleg Komarov - reporter;
Valentin Grudinin - policeman;
Viktor Polishchuk - Viktor Petrovich, Kovalchuk’s colleague;
Maria Kapnist - Praskovya Ilyinichna, neighbor of Kovalchuk and Golubchik.
At first, the film’s script was called “Women Leave,” but the studio management saw a lot of drama in this title, so it was decided to change it. During the production of the film, footage from aerial filming of such films as “People Above the Clouds” and “Only Girls in the Sky” was used. The film features a song based on the verses of Sergei Yesenin “You are my fallen maple, frozen maple...”, as well as several songs by the poet Yuri Rybchinsky to the music of Igor Poklad: “Once upon a time there lived a king by the blue sea”, “Foggy birches go into the distance”, “Your name is lunar motif."
Film critics did not see success in the film; they found many shortcomings in it. There is information that Leonid Bykov even stopped believing in his directorial success, but we all know that later he would shoot more than one masterpiece, which is now a screen classic.
In the meantime, we wish you a pleasant viewing and pleasure from meeting the characters on the screen, who were so beautifully played by talented actors.
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