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Office Romance
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7.9Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..
Cast
- Alisa Freyndlikh as Людмила Прокофьевна Калугина
- Andrey Myagkov as Анатолий Ефремович Новосельцев
- Svetlana Nemolyaeva as Ольга Петровна Рыжова
- Oleg Basilashvili as Юрий Григорьевич Самохвалов
- Liya Akhedzhakova as Верочка, секретарь Калугиной
- Lyudmila Ivanova as Шура
Themes
- 1970s
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Key facts
- Russian
- Служебный роман
- Directed by
- Eldar Ryazanov
- Written by
- Eldar Ryazanov Emil Braginsky
- Based on
- Co-workers , by Eldar Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky
- Starring
- Andrey Myagkov Alisa Freindlich Oleg Basilashvili Svetlana Nemolyaeva Liya Akhedzhakova
- Cinematography
- Vladimir Nakhabtsev
- Music by
- Andrei Petrov
- Distributed by
- Mosfilm
- Release date
- 26 October 1977 ( 1977-10-26 )
- Running time
- 159 minutes
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Language
- Russian
- Budget
- 500,000 rubles
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Encyclopedic overview
Office Romance (Russian: Служебный роман, romanized: Sluzhebny roman) is a 1977 Soviet comedy film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film's plot is based on the stageplay Co-workers (Сослуживцы) written by Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky, and tells the story of Ludmila Kalugina, head of a statistical bureau, and her subordinate, economist Anatoly Novoseltsev, who come from mutual aversion to love.
Filmed at Mosfilm in 1976 and released in 1977, Office Romance was a box office success, the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1978 and still enjoyed wide popularity in the former Soviet republics. Both romantic drama and screwball comedy, the film is noted for its scenes of Moscow in the late 1970s, and for its comical depiction of the everyday life and customs of Soviet society during the Era of Stagnation.
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