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The Long Recess

Original title: Bolshaya peremena
  • TV Mini Series
  • 19731973
  • 4h 18m
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8.1/10
1.7K
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The Long Recess (1973)
ComedyDramaRomance
A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.A young teacher goes to a school for adults. He is younger than many of his students and some of them are starting to miss school.
IMDb RATING
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1.7K
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  • Stars
    • Mikhail Kononov
    • Evgeniy Leonov
    • Rolan Bykov
  • Stars
    • Mikhail Kononov
    • Evgeniy Leonov
    • Rolan Bykov
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    • 1User review
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    Mikhail Kononov
    Mikhail Kononov
    • Nestor Severov (The History Teacher)
    Evgeniy Leonov
    Evgeniy Leonov
    • Lednyov
    Rolan Bykov
    Rolan Bykov
    • Petrykin
    Aleksandr Zbruev
    Aleksandr Zbruev
    • Ganzha
    Svetlana Kryuchkova
    Svetlana Kryuchkova
    • Nelli
    Yuriy Kuzmenkov
    Yuriy Kuzmenkov
    • Fedotkin
    Natalya Bogunova
    Natalya Bogunova
    • Svetlana Afanasyevna
    Natalya Gvozdikova
    Natalya Gvozdikova
    • Polina
    Saveliy Kramarov
    Saveliy Kramarov
    • Timokhin
    Viktor Proskurin
    Viktor Proskurin
    • Gena Lyakishev
    Valeriy Nosik
    Valeriy Nosik
    • Otto Fukin
    Nina Maslova
    Nina Maslova
    • Korovyanskaya
    Irina Azer
    Irina Azer
    • Lyuska
    Valeri Khlevinsky
    Valeri Khlevinsky
    • Avtovin
    Lyudmila Kasatkina
    Lyudmila Kasatkina
    • The School Director
    Anastasiya Georgievskaya
    Anastasiya Georgievskaya
    • Teacher
    Valentina Talyzina
    Valentina Talyzina
    • Teacher
    Nina Zhilina
    • Teacher
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      Referenced in Prozhektorperiskhilton: Goran Bregovic/Ivan Okhlobystin (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      Chyornoye i beloye
      ("Black and white")

      Written by Eduard Kolmanovskiy and Mikhail Tanich

      Performed by Svetlana Kryuchkova

    User reviews1

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    9/10
    Lovely and oh so nice. Not a single villain in over 4.5 hours
    It is such a heart warming filmed to be nice four-segment TV-series that for a lot of people it can be border-line tear-jerking. Unbelievable all-star-cast for early 70s USSR - makes this worth watching. Actually - the cool part of this TV mini-series - is that it shows - how being mendacious in order to be polite and well-behaved - can severely complicate lives of many really cool and good-hearted people. The guy who is planning to become a great historian finds himself (through being mutually overly secretive with his roller-coaster-ride swiftly head-over-hills fiancée) teaching Adult Ed - in a school for adults run by huge oil refinery. Tricky part is - that every student is an adult - with strong opinions, personal life etc. As the series unfold - it gets more and more complicated. But every scene is full of very kind humor. That's a good material to keep in personal video collection for when one feels down (provided it has English subtitles or one is fluent in Russian. LOL!). It is a reliable cheer-up material.
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    • Nov 1, 2006

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    • Release date
      • April 29, 1973 (Soviet Union)
      • Soviet Union
      • Russian
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      • Moscow, Russia
    • Production companies
      • Gosteleradio USSR
      • Mosfilm
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    • 4 hours 18 minutes
      • Color

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