Zone of Lyube

Zone of Lyube (Russian: Зона Любэ, romanized: Zona Lyube) is a 1994 Russian musical drama film directed by Dmitry Zolotukhin.^[1][2][3]

Zone of Lyube
Russian: Зона Любэ
Directed by	Dmitry Zolotukhin
Written by	Dmitriy Zolotukhin
Produced by	Igor Matvienko Oleg Sidorov Dmitry Zolotukhin
Starring	Marina Levtova Nikolay Rastorguyev Fyodor Sukhov Sergey Sazontyev Irina Rozanova
Cinematography	Oleg Martynov
Edited by	Yelena Taraskina
Music by	Igor Matvienko
Production companies	Gorky Film Studio White Wind
Release date	1994 (1994)
Running time	76 min.
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Plot

The film shows a concert of the Lyube group in zones and prisons, the audience of which are prisoners, security guards, men, women and teenagers, each song of which becomes someone's personal fate.^[4]

Cast

• Marina Levtova as Lena, journalist
• Nikolay Rastorguyev as cameo
• Fyodor Sukhov as Sedoy
• Sergey Sazontyev as major
• Irina Rozanova as a prisoner's wife
• Andrey Podoshian as Gypsy (elder brother)
• Valery Garkalin as Silnyy
• Aleksey Serebryakov as Andrey Egorov
• Marina Golub as Ozornaya
• Yevgeny Vesnik^[5] as Rynochnik
• Natalya Khorokhorina as Lukavaya
• Vladimir Kashpur as prisoner

Critical response

The film became an important milestone in the history of the group.^[6] At the same time, Andrei Titov, in his review for Iskusstvo Kino, wrote that the debutant director acted uncertainly, and called the dramatic component of the film “helpless”.^[7]