Forgotten Melody for a Flute
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Directed by | Eldar Ryazanov |
Written by | Emil Braginsky (play and screenplay) Eldar Ryazanov (play and screenplay) |
Starring | Leonid Filatov Tatyana Dogileva Irina Kupchenko Valentin Gaft Vsevolod Sanayev Olga Volkova |
Release date |
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Running time | 134 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Forgotten Melody for a Flute (Russian: Забытая мелодия для флейты, romanized: Zabytaya melodiya dlya fleyty) is a 1987 Russian comedy film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film's plot is based on the stage play of the same name written by Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky.
Plot[]
It tells the story of a former musician who must make a hard choice between freedom with his mistress and a comfortable life with his wife. Previously, he was a student of a conservatory and a good flute player and now is the husband of an important man's daughter. Himself he is the head of one of the units of the Main Directorate. One day Leonid Semenovich Filimonov feels a physical discomfort; his heart aches, and he is not even forty years old. This unpleasant incident provides an opportunity to get acquainted with Lida – a young nurse from the departmental clinic which becomes a start of a whirlwind romance.
Cast[]
- Leonid Filatov - Leonid Filimonov
- Tatyana Dogileva - Lida
- Irina Kupchenko - Yelena
- Valentin Gaft - Odinokov
- Vsevolod Sanayev - Yaroslav Stepanovich
- Olga Volkova - Surova
- - Aleksey Akimovich
- Alexander Shirvindt - Myasoedov
- Elena Mayorova - Lusya, a policeman
- Vaclav Dvorzhetsky — Leonid Filimonov's father
- — Leonid Filimonov's mother
- Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyorny — Sacha, actor
- — conductor of female choir
- — Kirill, Surova's nephew
- — Sacha, Kirill's partner in crime
- Nina Agapova — Tatyana Georgievna, secretary
- — actress, (Mayor's wife)
- — Capitolina Ivanovna
- — Fedor Demyanovich, Filimonov's father in law
- — director of amateur theatre
- — actor (Khlestakov)
- Alexander Pyatkov — bureaucrat on the train
- Eldar Ryazanov — man with telescope
External links[]
- 1987 films
- Russian-language films
- Soviet films
- 1987 comedy films
- Soviet comedy films
- Russian comedy films
- Russian films
- Mosfilm films
- Films directed by Eldar Ryazanov
- 1980s Soviet film stubs
- 1980s comedy film stubs