Afonya

Afonya

Афоня

Genres
Drama Comedy Romance

Release Date: Jan 01, 1976

Runtime: 92 minutes

Rating: 7.9/10

Status: Released

Production Companies
  • Mosfilm
  • Experimental Youth Creative Association

Overview

The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya "Afonya" was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character "Afonya" Borshev is a plumber, who spends his life partying with "buddies", many of whom he doesn't even remember after nights of heavy drinking. His wife leaves him, his boss places him on probation, his whole life is falling apart, but he doesn't realize it. Afonya met Katya at a dance club, yet didn't pay her much attention. But she is the one, who can save him... In this movie Daneliya achieves a perfect balance of satire and drama. Quotes from the movie gained a cult status in USSR.

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Cast

Leonid Kuravlyov, Yevgeniya Simonova, Evgeni Leonov, Savely Kramarov, Nina Maslova ,

Boryslav Brondukov, Valentina Talyzina, Nikolai Parfyonov, Nina Ruslanova, Gotlib Roninson, Tatiana Rasputina, Raisa Kurkina, Nikolay Grabbe, Vladimir Basov, Nikolay Grinko, Tatyana Teterina, Tamara Sovchi, Gennadiy Yalovich, Igor Bogolyubov, Radner Muratov, Mikhail Svetin, Aleksey Vanin, Nina Dobero, Mikhail Vaskov, Вячеслав Чигарин, Владимир Фомичёв, Pyotr Lyubeshkin, Юрий Дружинин, Galina Belinskaya, Aleksandr Lyovushkin, Viktor Kryuchkov, Aleksandr Potapov

Crew

Georgiy Daneliya, Aleksandr Borodyanskiy, Sergey Vronsky, Tatyana Egorycheva, Boris Nemechek ,

Yusup Daniyalov, V. Kryuchkov, Mieczysław Weinberg, Evgeniy Fyodorov, Emin Khachaturyan, Raisa Lukina, V. Ognev, Tatyana Razumovskaya, Maksut Alyautdinov, Vladimir Kromas, B. Timofeyev, Boris Travkin, Albert Rudachenko, Yelena Sudakova, V. Neklyudova, M. Rasskazova, B. Shirokov, S. Kocheburov, Aleksandr Yablochkin, Eleonora Nemechek