The Pokrovsky Gates (1982)

Покровские ворота

Moscow in the 1950s: a cheerful student moves into his aunt's communal flat, full of neighbours, romances and quarrels.

⚠ NO OFFICIAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES — MACHINE TRANSLATION ONLY

Mosfilm has not added English subtitles to this film. You can still follow it with YouTube automatic translation: start the video, click ⚙ Settings → Subtitles/CC → Auto-translate → English.

Please note: this translation is made by a machine in real time, not by us or by Mosfilm. It is often clumsy and sometimes wrong. We list this film because it is too famous to leave out. All films without this warning have proper, human-made English subtitles.

Plays from Mosfilm's official YouTube channel. Turn on Auto-translate as shown above; use the CC and ⚙ buttons in the player to change them. Open on YouTube ↗

Year
1982
Director
Mikhail Kozakov
Starring
Oleg Menshikov, Inna Ulyanova, Anatoly Ravikovich, Leonid Bronevoy, Elena Koreneva, Viktor Bortsov
Genre
Comedy, Romance
Running time
2 h 14 min · 2 parts
Based on
The play by Leonid Zorin
Language
Russian · no official English subtitles (YouTube machine translation only)
Studio
Mosfilm

About the film

Kostik, a carefree young graduate student, comes to live with his aunt in a crowded communal flat near Pokrovsky Gates in old Moscow. His neighbours include a former husband and wife who still share the flat, and the wife's new, very timid husband.

Kostik falls in and out of love, helps everyone and gets into trouble, while the adults around him have their own comic and sad stories.

Made for television, The Pokrovsky Gates became a cult favourite, loved for its nostalgia for old Moscow and its witty lines.

Did you know?

  • It is based on a play by Leonid Zorin, who also wrote the script.
  • It was one of Oleg Menshikov's first big roles.
  • Director Mikhail Kozakov was also a famous actor.

If you liked The Pokrovsky Gates