| I Ask to Accuse Klava K. of My Death | |
| Director: | Nikolai Lebedev Ernest Yasan |
| Starring: | Vladimir Shevelkov Nadezhda Gorshkova Natalia Zhuravleva Vladimir Sidorov |
| Cinematography: | Valery Mironov |
| Editing: | V. Nesterova |
| Producer: | Boris Griner Alexey Gusev |
| Runtime: | 72 minutes |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Language: | Russian |
I Ask to Accuse Klava K. of My Death (Russian: В моей смерти прошу винить Клаву К.|V moey smerti proshu vinit Klavu K.) is a 1979 Soviet teen film directed by Nikolai Lebedev and Ernest Yasan based on the eponymous story by Mikhail Lvovsky.[1] [2]
Regional center in the south of Russia. Young intellectuals Pavel and Rita Lavrov bring their four-year-old son Sergei to the kindergarten. He cries and does not want to stay here. Then the headmaster summons the pretty girl Klava Klimkova, who takes the boy to collect acorns. Sergei, with the help of his parents, collects more of them than other children; this causes the girl to experience affinity for him.
Klimkova and Lavrov are in the third grade. He studies well, is active in sports and sings in the school choir. She on the other hand, can only beautifully hand out flowers, but Sergei solves all problems for the girl. He constantly makes Klava gifts — both things belonging to him, and taken from family members.
Klava and Sergei are already in high school. He, as before, is the school's pride — winner of mathematical olympiads, chess champion of the school, athlete and simply a handsome man. Classmate Tanya Ishchenko is unrequitedly in love with him, and for Klava, Seryozha is merely a toy she is already sick of. The young man himself is not able to imagine life without his girlfriend.
A promising new boy from the parallel class Lavrik attracts Klimkova's attention — son of a doctor, also an excellent student, who once even played a draw with Mikhail Tal. Sergei tries to regain the girl's attention, but more and more she shows a desire to break up with him. When the young man threatens to commit suicide, she declares that she would go with him anywhere, only if he was able to fulfill his declaration. With difficulty, Tanya and Lavrik manage to stop Lavrov. Klava, on the contrary, cruelly ridicules Sergei before his classmates. But her actions do not matter - the young man's eyes have become lifeless, and neither the correct words from others, nor a trip to the mountains with his parents can remove him from his depressed state. Upon Sergei's arrival from his hike, it turns out that Tanya's mother has died and the girl left school to make a living. The young man is shocked by this. He no longer sees Klava, but also can not forget her. Even when he wanders around the city with Tanya, he sees his beloved in girls passing by.
Once Sergei and Klava meet at Lavrik's and then go for a walk, and the girl tries to apologize.
After some time, Sergei awkwardly tries to profess his love to Tanya. Afterwards she leaves, and for a long time the boy gazes after her as she is walking away.