10/10
A haunting romantic drama about a love-affair between an American and the daughter of the Russian Ambassador during the Cold War.
19 December 2006
Warning: Spoilers
The Young Lovers arrested my attention throughout. It was a very tender, but suspenseful, portrayal of love and passion between a young American man and the daughter of a Russian ambassador in London during the Cold War round about 1954. The sense of warmth and companionship in what would have otherwise been a harsh and frightening set-up is well brought out in this gripping film. The story holds one's attention and every minute advances the point of the theme. The characters including the Russian ambassador are all desirable folk which is what makes the film all the more heart-rending. Instead of hampering the progress of the sequence of events, the incidental music is very appropriately timed and adds to the moving effect of the story. The message of the film seems to be that the Cold War is a very insensitive and inhuman era in a society of innocent people who are living their lives.

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