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A Stinging Comedy from Russia

Genres

Drama

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In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that here people live very differently than in the world familiar to him. By chance, he witnesses someone else's love drama - intellectual Sasha and dissident Andrei who is leaving for America. He is shocked by this complex conflict and fictitious problems, where there is no place for either melancholy or depression. In this situation, the hero decides to go to Moscow...

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Runtime

98 mins

Rating

5.4/10

Release Date

09 January 1979

Country

Soviet Union

Cast

Mikhail Ulyanov

Mikhail Ulyanov

Kim Yesenin

Inna Churikova

Inna Churikova

Sasha Nikolayeva

Yevgeni Vesnik

Yevgeni Vesnik

Pashchin

Yevgeniya Nechayeva

Yevgeniya Nechayeva

Mariya Aleksandrovna

Sergey Nikonenko

Sergey Nikonenko

Sinitsyn

Natalya Seleznyova

Natalya Seleznyova

Svetlana

Stanislav Lyubshin

Stanislav Lyubshin

'Bearded'

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