Osenniy marafon (1979)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Oleg Basilashvili	...	Andrei Pavlovich Buzykin
	Natalya Gundareva	...	Nina Evlampievna Buzykina
	Marina Neyolova	...	Alla Mikhailovna Ermakova - Buzykin's mistress
	Evgeni Leonov	...	Vasili Ignatyevich Kharitonov - Buzykin's Neighbour
	Norbert Kuchinke	...	Bill Hansson - a Denmark professor
	Nikolai Kryuchkov	...	Uncle Kolya - Alla's Neighbour
	Galina Volchek	...	Varvara Nikitichna - the 'Thumbelina'
	Olga Bogdanova	...	Yelena - Buzykin's daughter
	Borislav Brondukov	...	The Active Car Accident Witness
	Vladimir Grammatikov	...	Eugene Ptashuk 'Zhenya' - Alla's friend
	Dmitri Matveyev	...	Victor - Buzykin's son-in-law (as D. Matveyev)
	Vadim Medvedev
	Nikita Podgornyj	...	Georgy Nickolaevich Verigin
	Vladimir Pozhidayev	...	The aggressive van driver
	Lyudmila Ivanova

Storyline

Andrey Pavlovich Buzykin, who makes a living by teaching at an institute and translating English literature, is cheating on his wife. Buzykin's main problem is that he's a kind man with a weak character. The lies he is telling his wife all the time are inconvincing, but he never has the courage to tell her the truth. His lover, Alla, is aware of his family life, but gets offended when, for example, he cannot meet her so that he doesn't come home late, or when he doesn't want to go home in a new jacket she gives him to avoid having to explain to his wife. Alla and Nina, Andrei's wife, both leave him, forgive him, and return to him at the same time, and Andrei continues with this kind of life, full of suffering and deceit. Finally, both women are so fed up with his lies that they don't believe him even when he is telling the truth... Written by Denis Chebikin <chebikin@mit.edu>  

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