40 years Tears Were Falling

On January 15, 1983, a film by Georgiy Daneliya "Слёзы капали (Tears Were Falling) "was released on the screens of very few Soviet cinemas.

The director himself defined the genre of this film as "a sad fairy tale." Although there is very little fairy tale in the film. In fact, only the plot, borrowed from the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen.

The Soviet censorship understood very well that "Tears Were Falling" is not a fairy tale, and put the film "on the shelf". But six months later, the censors came to the conclusion that the audience would not understand the film, and released it on the screens. But just in case - the so-called "second screen": limited edition, only in peripheral cinemas and in the morning sessions. When adults are at work. In addition, the release of this film outside the USSR was banned.

As a result of the measures taken, the film did not participate in any film festivals, professional film critics passed the film in silence.

It is difficult to say how ordinary moviegoers rated the film in 1983: there are no data on the number of viewings. But modern moviegoers, many of whom, according to their reviews, saw in Georgiy Daneliya's film "Tears Were Falling" an allegory of socialist reality and, moreover, extreme topicality, after several decades since the film was released, they rated it rather highly: 68% IMDB and Kinopoisk users rated the film from 8 to 10.

With that said, Georgiy Daneliya's film "Tears Were Falling" was rated 8,087 by FilmGourmand, which allowed it to take 602nd Rank in the Golden Thousand.