When a corporate shark meets a sanatorium sweetheart, the verdict is guilty... of falling in love.
They met in court. A successful businessman Alexander, who turned out to be a calculating businessman, was taking a room from the sanatorium for the elderly, in which the pretty girl Vera worked.
Acting
Tolstoganova's warmth balances Safonov's delicious smarm.
Production
Sanatorium setting feels lived-in, not postcard-pretty.
Director
Aleksandr Franskevich-Laye
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Co-director Vera Glagoleva appears to have named her character after herself — bold.
Post-Soviet sanatorium culture is practically its own genre; this treats it with surprising affection rather than satire.
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