We'll Live Till Monday
Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit...
Year: 1968
Studio: Gorky Film Studios
Director: Stanislav Rostotsky
Cast: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Irina Pechernikova, Nina Menshikova, Mikhail Zimin, Dalvin Shcherbakov, Nadir Malishevsky
Crew: Stanislav Rostotsky (Director), Vyacheslav Shumskiy (Director of Photography), Georgi Polonsky (Screenplay), Boris Dulenkov (Production Design), Kirill Molchanov (Original Music Composer), Aleksandr Izbutskiy (Sound)
Runtime: 106 minutes
Release: Jul 02, 1968
IMDb: 7.40/10 by 38 users
Popularity: 4
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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