Directed by:
Павел ЛунгинScreenplay:
Павел ЛунгинCinematography:
Aleksandr BurovCast:
Marat Basharov, Maria Mironova, Andrey Panin, Nadezhda Markina, Марина Голуб, Vladimir Kashpur, Aleksandr Semchev, Владимир Симонов, Daniil Belykh (more)Plots(1)
Tanya, an attractive woman tired of playing the role of girlfriend to an older wealthy man and sick of her modelling career in Moscow, returns to Lipka, her hometown. And maybe it’s not just caprice that leads her to ask a onetime schoolmate and admirer, Misha Krapivin, to marry her. He, like all the local men, works at a tapped-out mine and struggles with a chronic lack of money. Though shocked by the unexpected situation, relatives and neighbours nevertheless decide to throw the young couple a proper wedding. By a stroke of luck the mine finally hands over several months’ back pay to the workers. And when the wedding takes place it becomes a inexhaustible source of surprising, comic, even bizarre situations which reflect not only the rather abject misery of provincial life, but also the elemental invincibility and unfathomability of the Russian character. Inhabitants of the mining town of Lipka (near Tula) filled in as extras and were a significant reason why the actors together won the Best Acting Company Award for the director at Cannes. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Marat Basharov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
Burnt by the Sun (1994)
The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment (1999)
Maria Mironova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Gibel imperii (2005) (series)
Tri muškeťora (2013)
Son of a Rich (2019)
Andrey Panin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
Mummy (1999)
Nežnyj vozrast (2000)
Nadezhda Markina
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Demons (2014) (series)
The Cry of Silence (2019) (TV movie)
Who, If Not Us (1999)
Марина Голуб
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Mamy (2012)
What a Mess! (1995)
A Driver for Vera (2004)
Vladimir Kashpur
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Legend of Till Ullenspiegel (1976)
The Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)
Liberation (1971)
Aleksandr Semchev
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Ice Age (2002)
Děň vyborov (2007)
Granica. Tajožnyj roman (2001) (series)
Владимир Симонов
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Granica. Tajožnyj roman (2001) (series)
Soulless 2 (2015)
Deeper! (2020)
Daniil Belykh
Soviet Union
Best movies:
DMB (2000)
Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)
Fartovyj (2006)
Nadejda Makrina
Russia
Best movies:
Elena (2011)
Mariya Golubkina
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Attaque sur Léningrad (2009)
Countdown (2004)
Moscow Heat (2004)
Anna Shtukaturova
Soviet Union
Andrey Bronnikov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Tycoon (2002)
Tsar (2009)
Gagarin's Grandson (2007)