The Long Recess 

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.

Stars:

Evgeniy Leonov, Rolan Bykov, Aleksandr Zbruev

Cast

Series cast summary:
Evgeniy Leonov	...	Lednyov 4 episodes, 1972
Rolan Bykov	...	Petrykin 4 episodes, 1972
Aleksandr Zbruev	...	Ganzha 4 episodes, 1972
Svetlana Kryuchkova	...	Nelli 4 episodes, 1972
Yuriy Kuzmenkov	...	Fedotkin 4 episodes, 1972
Natalya Bogunova	...	Svetlana Afanasyevna 4 episodes, 1972
Natalya Gvozdikova	...	Polina 4 episodes, 1972
Saveliy Kramarov	...	Timokhin 4 episodes, 1972
Viktor Proskurin	...	Gena Lyakishev 4 episodes, 1972
Valeriy Nosik	...	Otto Fukin 4 episodes, 1972
Nina Maslova	...	Korovyanskaya 4 episodes, 1972
Iren Azer	...	Lyuska 4 episodes, 1972
Valeri Khlevinsky	...	Avtovin 4 episodes, 1972
Lyudmila Kasatkina	...	The School Director 4 episodes, 1972
Anastasiya Georgievskaya	...	Teacher 4 episodes, 1972
Valentina Talyzina	...	Teacher 4 episodes, 1972
Nina Zhilina	...	Teacher 4 episodes, 1972
Lyudmila Antsiferova	...	Teacher 4 episodes, 1972
Valentina Kuznetsova	...	Teacher 4 episodes, 1972
Mikhail Yanshin	...	Professon Volosyuk 4 episodes, 1972
Valentina Sperantova	...	School Janitor 4 episodes, 1972
Lev Durov	...	Militiaman 4 episodes, 1972
Lyusyena Ovchinnikova	...	Valya, Petrykin's bride 4 episodes, 1972
Lev Dubov	...	Engineer 4 episodes, 1972
Vladimir Basov		4 episodes, 1972
Elya Baskin		4 episodes, 1972
Mariya Koreneva		4 episodes, 1972
Vyacheslav Garin		4 episodes, 1972
Nikolay Grabbe		4 episodes, 1972
Ivan Ryzhov		4 episodes, 1972
A. Irichyov		4 episodes, 1972
Aleksey Kutuzov		4 episodes, 1972
Gotlib Roninson		4 episodes, 1972
Ya Yakobson		4 episodes, 1972
Igor Surovtsev		4 episodes, 1972
Mikhail Rozanov		4 episodes, 1972
Galina Komarova		4 episodes, 1972
Aleksandr Zimin		4 episodes, 1972
Larisa Barabanova		4 episodes, 1972
Zoya Stepanova		4 episodes, 1972
Natalya Gurzo		4 episodes, 1972
Valentina Ananina	...	(1972) 4 episodes, 1972
Zoya Isaeva	...	(1972) 4 episodes, 1972
Svetlana Starikova		4 episodes, 1972
Tamara Loginova		4 episodes, 1972
Aleksandr Kaluzhskiy		4 episodes, 1972
Mikhail Remizov	...	(1972) 4 episodes, 1972

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

russia | school | tv mini series | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Details

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian

Release Date:

1972 (Soviet Union)

Also Known As:

The Long Recess

Filming Locations:

Moscow, Russia

Company Credits

Production Co:

Gosteleradio, Mosfilm

Technical Specs

Runtime:

268 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Referenced in Prozhektorperiskhilton: Goran Bregovic/Ivan Okhlobystin (2010)

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Soundtracks

Ya zdes', Inezilya
("I'm here, Inezilya")
Written by Mikhail Glinka and Alexander Pushkin in the XIX century
Performed by Svetlana Kryuchkova

User Reviews

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.