Ladies Invite Gentlemen (1980)

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A small-town shop assistant goes to the seaside looking for a fairy-tale romance and meets a very ordinary man.

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Year
1980
Director
Ivan Kiasashvili
Starring
Natalya Andreichenko, Leonid Kuravlyov, Alexander Fatyushin, Marina Neyolova, Nikolai Karachentsov
Genre
Comedy, Romance
Running time
1 h 11 min
Based on
A story by Lev Slavin
Language
Russian, English subtitles
Studio
Mosfilm

About the film

Nyura is thirty, unmarried and works in a shop in a quiet provincial town. She is sure that real life is happening somewhere else, full of music and carnival colours.

On holiday by the sea she meets Sanya, simple, kind and not at all the prince of her dreams. So she runs away. But perhaps the happiness she is looking for is closer than she thinks.

A short, sweet comedy with a bright young Natalya Andreichenko and a cast of famous faces in small roles.

Did you know?

  • The script was co-written by Karen Shakhnazarov and Alexander Borodyansky.
  • It runs just over 70 minutes, one of the shortest films on this site.

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