No precise dates for events are given in the film, apart from the Christmas Eve party at which Lara tries to kill Komarovski. However, the scenes with the elderly Yevgraf telling the story to the girl must be set in the late 1950s at the earliest Yuri's poems are banned in the Stalinist era, and published only after the denunciation of Stalin by the Soviet authorities in 1956, three years after the dictator's death. The scenes showing the idyll of Yuri and Lara at Varykino clearly occur no later than the mid-1920s, months after Yuri has finally returned from the Civil War. Lara tells Komarovski that she is pregnant by Yuri as they drive away, meaning that their daughter (said to have been born "before the end of the same year") would have to be well into her thirties by the time Yevgraf interviews her in the engineer's office. However, she is presented as a girl in her late teens or early 20s.

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