Vanity of Vanities (1979)

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A husband leaves after nineteen years of marriage, but their teenage daughter's sudden trip with a taxi driver brings the couple back together.

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Year
1979
Director
Alla Surikova
Starring
Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Galina Polskikh, Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Krachkovskaya
Genre
Comedy, Romance
Running time
1 h 26 min
Language
Russian, English subtitles
Studio
Mosfilm

About the film

Boris Ivanovich announces that he is in love with someone else. His wife, Marina Petrovna, refuses to give him a divorce; she simply does not believe he is serious. Their eighteen-year-old daughter takes her mother's side.

Then the daughter meets Vasya, a young taxi driver, and goes off with him to visit his parents in Novgorod. Her worried mother and father set off after her, and on the road they start to remember why they married.

A gentle family comedy from a script by Emil Braginsky, the co-writer of many of Ryazanov's best films.

Did you know?

  • The writer Emil Braginsky also co-wrote Office Romance and Garage.
  • Frunzik Mkrtchyan, star of Mimino, plays a key role.

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