| Release Date: | Apr 1982 |
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| Genres: | Romance / Drama / Comedy |
| Awards: | 3 wins |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
| Cast: | Oleg Basilashvili (Andrei Pavlovich Buzykin), Natalya Gundareva (Nina Evlampievna Buzykina), Marina Neyolova (Alla Mikhailovna Ermakova -...) Evgeni Leonov (Vasili Ignatyevich Kharitonov -...) Norbert Kuchinke (Bill Hansson - a Denmark professor) Nikolai Kryuchkov (Uncle Kolya - Alla's Neighbour) Galina Volchek (Varvara Nikitichna - the...) Olga Bogdanova (Yelena - Buzykin's daughter) Borislav Brondukov (The Active Car Accident Witness) Vladimir Grammatikov (Eugene Ptashuk 'Zhenya' -...) Dmitri Matveyev (Victor - Buzykin's son-in-law...) Vadim Medvedev ((as V. Medvedev)) Nikita Podgornyj (Georgy Nickolaevich Verigin) Vladimir Pozhidayev (The aggressive van driver) Lyudmila Ivanova () Georgi Semyonov (Evdokimov - Buzykin's friend) Vladimir Firsov (Lifanov - A Student) Rezo Khobua ((credit only) (as R. Khobua)) Artyom Karapetyan (TV-movie text reader (voice)) Georgi Daneliya (Otto - the German officer in the...) |
Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling his wife all the time are inconvincing, but he never has the courage to tell her the truth. His lover, Alla, is aware of his family life, but gets offended when, for example, he cannot meet her so that he doesn't come home late, or when he doesn't want to go home in a new jacket she gives him to avoid having to explain to his wife. Alla and Nina, Andrei's wife, both leave him, forgive him, and return to him at the same time, and Andrei continues with this kind of life, full of suffering and deceit. Finally, both women are so fed up with his lies that they don't believe him even when he is telling the truth...
