Aleksandr Shirvindt
1934 (90 лет)Mad day or Figaro wedding
Valentin Pluchek, Vladimir Khramov
Andrey Mironov, Aleksandr Shirvindt
The servant of Count Almaviva, the jolly and joker Figaro, is going to marry the maid of the Countess Rosina - Susanne. But the count wants to upset the wedding and make the girl his lover.
Mad day or Figaro wedding
Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!
Eldar Ryazanov
Andrey Myagkov, Barbara Brylska
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Year's Eve. Occasionally too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there...
The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!
Вокзал для двоих
Eldar Ryazanov
Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nikita Mikhalkov
Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's fiancé, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other...
Station for Two
Бенефис. Людмила Гурченко
Yevgeni Ginzburg
Lyudmila Gurchenko, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Телевизионный фильм-спектакль, бенефис актрисы театра и кино Людмилы Гурченко. Бенефицианка сыграла около двадцати вокальных и пластических мини-ролей — от лукавой старушонки до юной обворожительной леди из дома терпимости.
Бенефис. Людмила Гурченко
Once More About Love
Georgi Natanson
Tatyana Doronina, Aleksandr Lazarev
For the first time, Natasha saw Elektron Yevdokimov at the Polytechnic Museum, where she came with Feliks. Then she really liked the confident speaker. Relations with Feliks didn't work out, and Natasha, leaving home, became a flight attendant — that is what she called her new profession. Once in a cafe, before the next flight, Natasha saw Yevdokimov. They met and began to meet. They experience their feelings for each other in different ways. By the power of her love, Natasha makes Yevdokimov understand what love is.
Once More About Love
Forgotten Tune for the Flute
Eldar Ryazanov
Leonid Filatov, Tatyana Dogileva
A flutist in the forgotten past, at present the husband of a “big man’s” daughter and head of one of the Chief Directorate’s sections felt unwell one day: the forty-year-old man had a pain in his heart. This unpleasant incident provided an opportunity to meet a nurse named Lida. However, their stormy love affair ended, with Filimonov returning to normal life and an unloved wife.
Forgotten Tune for the Flute
Маленькие комедии большого дома
Valentin Pluchek, Aleksandr Shirvindt
Andrey Mironov, Spartak Mishulin
Жители нового дома влюбляются, ссорятся и мирятся, работают и отдыхают, танцуют и поют: «Смотровой ордер» — оптимистическая комедия с переездом и вселением. «Грабеж» — психологический ретро детектив со взломом. «Московская серенада» — комедийный мюзикл о любви с песнями и танцами. «Звуковое письмо» — четвертая новелла в исполнении Александра Ширвиндта. «Пой, ласточка, пой…» — жилищно-бытовая оратория для ЖЭКа с фортепьяно.
Маленькие комедии большого дома
Come Tomorrow...
Yevgeni Tashkov
Anatoli Papanov, Ekaterina Savinova
The girl Frosya Burlakova comes to Moscow from the remote Siberian village of Eltsovka to become a singer. She stops at the sculptor Nikolai Vasilyevich, who studied at a school in Zaporozhye, where their mutual friend worked — a school caretaker, who then moved to Siberia. Completely unfamiliar with the life of big cities, Frosya amuses Nikolai Vasilyevich himself, his girlfriend Natasha and the housekeeper with his provinciality and spontaneity. However, the absolute sincerity and spiritual purity of Frosy make the sculptor think that he himself has long been stuck in lies, vanity and commercial work, exchanged his artistic talent for trifles and lost his creative path.
Come Tomorrow...
You and Me
Larisa Shepitko
Leonid Dyachkov, Yuri Vizbor
Two young talented neurosurgeons — Pyotr and Sasha — are enthusiastically working on a complex medical experiment. But in search of stability and a better life, Pyotr goes to work in Stockholm, Sasha becomes a major official. Pyotrr's overseas life does not add up, and he returns to Moscow. Realizing that his friend has a completely different life, Pyotr goes to Siberia, where he works on an ambulance. There he meets a girl with a brain disease, the study of which he had once been involved in, but did not finish the job. Feeling in vain of a lived, failed life, a sense of professional guilt in front of this sick girl, whom no one can help, torment him, and he again recalls his true destiny.
You and Me
Winter Evening in Gagry
Karen Shakhnazarov
Evgeniy Evstigneev, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy
A young romantic loves step dance but there is only one person who knows this forgotten art. Beglov was a step dance super star back in 50s but as step became unpopular he lost everything. He hates even this word - 'chechotka' (step dance). But somehow the young man convinces him to become his coach and manager.
Winter Evening in Gagry
What a Smile You Got
Oleg Nikolayevsky
Aleksei Mokrousov, Aleksandr Shirvindt
Sergey Savinov, a yesterday's schoolboy, who failed at his entry exams, is at the crossroads. Where to go to work? After working as a stand-by in a local recreation-and-entertainment park, he tries himself as a proof-reader in typography, a laboratory assistant in a plant and exhausts all his stock of photos for passes. To replenish it, he heads for a nearest photo saloon, and makes a conclusion, that his calling, which he long considered as a hobby, is photography. A work which brings so much happiness both to him and to other people.
What a Smile You Got