Five Evenings (Russian: Пять вечеров, romanized: Pyat vecherov) is a Soviet romantic drama film by Nikita Mikhalkov in 1978 [1] based on the same name play by Aleksandr Volodin.

[2] One autumn evening in 1958, Ilyin visits Moscow and, while at the home of his acquaintance Zoya, notices a familiar building he once lived in before the war.

Later, while Tamara initially refuses to celebrate their reunion, she eventually joins in, rekindling a sense of camaraderie.

As the two grow closer, Ilyin confesses his desire to quit his job, become a driver, and move to Russia’s North, inviting Tamara to join him.

She then visits his former classmate, Timofeyev, learning that Ilyin had dropped out of school after standing up to a corrupt official, subsequently finding fulfillment as a boxer and then a driver in the North.