A graduate of the culinary technical school of the cook, Tosya Kislitsyna, a naive and eccentric girl, came to the village lost in the northern forests. She sticks her nose in all affairs, seeks to help everyone. She met Ilya on the day of arrival: the "first guy in the village" fell upon her indignantly, and in the evening, to brighten up an unpleasant meeting, she decided to "make happy" with an invitation to a dance and was refused. Not accustomed to refusals, Ilya argues with Filya that during the week he will fall in love with Tosya...
Acting
Rumyantseva's Tosya—part tornado, part cinnamon roll, all unforgettable.
Writing
Whip-smart dialogue where every rejection is a declaration of war.
Director
Yuri Chulyukin
Nadezhda Rumyantseva
Tosya
Nikolai Rybnikov
Ilya
Lyusyena Ovchinnikova
Katya
Inna Makarova
Nadya
Svetlana Druzhinina
Anfisa
Nina Menshikova
Vera
Stanislav Khitrov
Filya
Nikolay Pogodin
Sasha
Viktor Baykov
Ksan Ksanych
Anatoli Adoskin
Dementyev
Mikhail Pugovkin
commandant
Pyotr Kiryutkin
master Churkin
Aleksey Krychenkov
Alyosha
Roman Filippov
Vasya
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This Soviet smash hit out-grossed Dr. No at the Eastern Bloc box office, proving communist rom-coms hit different.
Rumyantseva was 28 playing naive 22; Rybnikov was 37 playing village golden boy. Soviet casting said 'we'll make it work.'
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