An Old-Fashioned Comedy (1980)
Based on the play of the same name by Aleksei Arbuzov. The meeting between the chief physician of the sanatorium Rodion Nikolayevich and the patient Lydia Vasilievna begins with a conflict: the woman managed to break the sanatorium regime in the very first days of her stay. However, soon the acquaintance of two middle-aged people turns into friendship, and then into mutual sympathy...
Directors: Era Savelyeva, Tatyana Berezantseva.
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Alisa Freyndlikh as Lidiya Vasilyevna |
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Igor Vladimirov as Rodion Nikolayevich |
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Tamara Sovchi as barmaid (uncredited) |
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Boris Tokarev as Lidiya Vasilyevna's son (uncredited) |
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Galina Besedina as singer in a cafe (uncredited) |
| Directing | Era Savelyeva | Director |
| Camera | Boris Kocherov | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Mikael Tariverdiev | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Aleksei Arbuzov | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Sergeyeva | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Tatyana Berezantseva | Director |
| Art | Aleksei Parkhomenko | Production Design |
| Writing | Vladimir Zheleznikov | Writer |
| Sound | Leonid Bulgakov | Sound |
| Editing | Nadezhda Anikeyeva | Editor |
| Art | Konstantin Forostenko | Production Design |
| Writing | Aleksei Arbuzov | Theatre Play |