The Pokrovsky Gate

The Pokrovsky Gate
back cover of Russian-language DVD
Directed by	Mikhail Kozakov
Written by	Leonid Zorin
Starring	Oleg Menshikov Inna Ulyanova Anatoly Ravikovich Leonid Bronevoy Viktor Bortsov
Music by	Georgy Garanian Bulat Okudzhava
Cinematography	Nikolay Nemolyayev
Edited by	Irma Tsekavaya
Distributed by	Mosfilm
Release date	1982
Running time	140 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Pokrovsky Gate (Russian: Покровские ворота, translit. Pokrovskiye Vorota) is a 1982 Soviet comedy film produced for television by Mosfilm. It was directed by Mikhail Kozakov and stars Oleg Menshikov, Leonid Bronevoy, and Inna Ulyanova. The screenplay is based on a 1974 stage play by Leonid Zorin.

Featured in the film are three songs written and performed by renowned "bard" Bulat Okudzhava: "Chasovye Lyubvi" ("Sentries of Love"), "Zhivopistsy" ("Painters"), and "Pesenka ob Arbate" ("Ditty about Arbat").

The title refers to a square on Moscow's Boulevard Ring near which the film's main characters reside.

The story takes place in the 1950s. Konstantin “Kostik” Romin (Oleg Menshikov) has come to Moscow to study history and is staying with kindly aunt Alisa (Sofya Pilyavskaya), who lives in a "communal apartment" building there. His life soon becomes intertwined with those of the other residents. Among them are Margarita Pavlovna (Inna Ulyanova) and both her former husband Lev Khobotov (Anatoly Ravikovich), a publisher of foreign poetry, and her new beau, World War II veteran and engraver-turned-teacher Savva Ignatevich (Viktor Bortsov).