Dusha

• Sofia Rotaru
• Rolan Bykov
• Mikhail Boyarsky
• Vyacheslav Spessiwzew
• Ivars Kalnins
• Leonid Obolensky
• Valeri Yefremov
• Aleksander Kutikow
• Andrei Makarevich
• Pyotr Podgorodezki
• Ovanes Melik - Pashayev
• Tatjana Aksjuta

Soul (Russian Душа, Transkr. Duscha ) is a Soviet musical film drama from 1981 with Sofia Rotaru in the main role, and Mikhail Boyarsky and the band Maschina Wremeni ( time machine ). The screenplay was written by Aleksandr Borodyanski, directed by Alexander Stefanovich. The film was seen in 1981 in the Soviet Union and became a blockbuster of 57 million moviegoers.

Action

The story is set on the seafront near the real house of Sofia in Yalta and in Germany, as well as on international song festivals, including Sofia Rotaru participated.

The heroine learns before an international song festival, that they may lose their voice due to illness. A friend helps her to avoid this situation. The main role of the film - Wiktoria Swobodina, played by Sofia Rotaru - opts for a new style of music and thereby gains at the festival, the "Grand Prix".

Background

The film uses rock songs of that time in the Soviet Union new musical style, which are mainly sung by the singer Sofia Rotaru and partly by Mikhail Boyarsky and Maschina Wremeni. In addition soul contains some philosophical dialogues with self-criticism of artists and existential approaches to the philosophy of the Golden Mean, which weighs between artistic creationism and the respect for human dignity. In the movie there is a scene that is considered the first Soviet music video, jumping with Sofia Rotaru and Mikhail Boyarsky in gold stretch fabric on a trampoline.

In December 2001, before the opening of the Moscow concert program of Sofia Rotaru My Life - My love the DVD version of the film was released, which was in Russia in the ranking at No. 5.