Armageddon
About Armageddon
In a Moldovan village a young communist and a young Jehovah's Witness fall in love. She believes the relationship is a sin. The film treats the affair as ill-fated.
Cast & crew
More about Armageddon
Mikhail Izrailev directed. George Meniuc and Lidiya Mishchenko wrote the script. Eduard Bredun and Izolda Izvitskaya lead the cast, with Domnika Dariyenko, Svetlana Shvayko, Vladimir Pitsek, and Mikhail Tumanishvili. Moldova-Film released it in 1962. The running time is 99 minutes.
Themes
Background
Jehovah's Witnesses in the Moldovan borderlands had been a police matter since the 1940s. The film puts that conflict inside a courtship.
Making
Izrailev made it at Moldova-Film, using a village romance to set a party member against a believer.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- The Russian title is Armageddon.
- Izvitskaya, known for The Forty-First, is one of the two leads.
- The religious side of the romance is a Jehovah's Witness, a group Soviet films rarely put at the center of a love story.
- Meniuc, a Moldovan writer, shares the script credit with Mishchenko.
- The film runs 99 minutes.
Scenes
- The two meet in the village and the romance starts against both households.
- She names the relationship a sin.
