Your best friend is marrying a stranger and you're not invited to the feelings.
Factory director Kungurtsev returns from a trip abroad and finds out that his longtime and only friend engineer Alexei Putyatin is going to marry Vera, who is very different from everyone's beloved Lipa, Alexei's first wife.
Acting
Zhzhyonov's face says everything the script won't.
Direction
Shredel frames absence like a physical presence.
Director
Vladimir Shredel
Iya Savvina
Вера Дмитриевна
Georgi Zhzhyonov
Павел Леонтьевич Кунгурцев — директор завода
Vladimir Zamanskiy
Алексей Путятин
Inna Kondratyeva
Mariya Kungurtseva
Leonid Obolensky
Леонид Леонидович режиссер
Irina Gubanova
Леночка помощник режиссера
Oleg Belov
Сергей Бурыга кинооператор
Lyubov Strizhenova
Липочка первая жена Путятина
Andrey Balyberdin
Антон сын Кунгурцевых
Lena Kolysheva
Оля дочь Веры Дмитриевны
Nikita Mikhajlovsky
Митька младший сын Кунгурцева
Sofya Avericheva
эпизод
Vladimir Arshinov
эпизод
Vladimir Shibankov
браконьер
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during late Soviet stagnation, the film's emotional restraint mirrored a culture where private grief had no public language.
The 76-minute runtime was deliberately tight — Shredel believed Soviet audiences had learned to read silences, having spent decades doing so in daily life.
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