Historical and Mythological Time in Svetlana Proskurina’s Film Pervaya Lyubov (First Love)

Abstract

The article analyzes the drama of Svetlana Proskurina’s film and the images of the central characters. Since the theme of the male character’s obsession with his beloved woman and the theme of the heroines’ enchantment do not give an answer to the central question of the film: what is “first love” actually, the author identifies mythological components in the narrative and analyzes how they help effectuate the first love theme. Having discovered in the film the story of Orpheus and Eurydice turned inside out - the line of George and his beloved and allusions to the Odyssey, the author draws conclusions about the ways the film’s creators manipulate time. The analysis of the chronotope proves that the space and time constructed in the film have the characteristics of an illusion, of another world. The author concludes that the main idea is expressed through monologue speech.

Keywords

• svetlana proskurina
• ekaterina tirdatova
• igor vernik
• aleksandra rebenok
• melodrama
• mythological time