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Release Date: January 09, 1979

Year	:	1979
Slogan	:	«A Stinging Comedy from Russia»
Genres	:	Drama
Production Companies	:	Mosfilm
Director	:	Gleb Panfilov
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Writers	:	Gleb Panfilov, Aleksandr Chervinsky
RunTime	:	94 mins.

In search of inspiration and new topics, the famous metropolitan writer Kim Yesenin goes to the province. Unexpectedly for himself, he discovers that here people live very differently than in the world familiar to him. By chance, he witnesses someone else's love drama - dissident Andrei and intellectual Sasha, who is leaving for America. He is shocked by this complex conflict and fictitious problems, where there is no place for either melancholy or depression. In this situation, the hero decides to go to Moscow...