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You I Love

2004 film by Dmitry Troitsky

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ2627002 ↗
Source-derived summary

You I Love (Russian: Я люблю тебя, romanized: Ya lyublyu tebya) is a 2004 Russian comedy melodrama directed by Olga Stolpovskaja and Dmitry Troitsky. It was the first ever film to come from Russia on the subject of homosexuality or bisexuality.

Cast

Damir Badmaev as Ulyumdzhi

Lyubov Tolkalina as Vera Kirillova

Yevgeny Koryakovsky as Timofey

Nina Agapova as Timofey's neighbor

Emanuel Michael Waganda as John

Reception

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an aggregated score of 38% based on 12 positive and 20 negative critic reviews.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “You I Love” is 2004 film by Dmitry Troitsky. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Love, film and Dmitry, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2004-02-06, 2004-04-20—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Love, film and Dmitry is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2004 film by Dmitry Troitsky” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2627002. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “You I Love”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow You I Love primary sources, You I Love archive and Love research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “You I Love”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “You I Love” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.