🎵 Now playing: a song from a Soviet classic
In Pyotr Todorovsky’s City Romance (1970), a lonely X-ray doctor meets a young kindergarten teacher, and two very different worlds try to find each other. The song many viewers remember from the film is Mireille Mathieu’s “Pardonne-moi ce caprice d’enfant” (“Forgive Me This Childish Whim”), a French summer hit of 1970 written by Patricia Carli.
Mathieu was adored in the USSR, and this song became tied to the film in people’s memories. Its tenderness and its plea for forgiveness suit a fragile, uncertain love story.
Some songs don’t just accompany a film. They become its heartbeat. 🎬
Не пробуй этот мед: в нем ложка дегтя.
Чего не заработал - не проси.
Не плюй в колодец. Не кичись. До локтя
всего вершок - попробуй укуси.
Час утренний - делам, любви - вечерний,
раздумьям - осень, бодрости - зима.
Весь мир устроен из ограничений,
чтобы от счастья не сойти с ума.