An Almost Funny Story

1977 film
  • Olga Antonova
  • Lyudmila Arinina
  • Mikhail Gluzsky
CinematographyFelix KefchiyanEdited byG. IlyukhinaMusic bySergey Nikitin
Viktor Berkovsky
Production
company
Studio Ekran
Release date
  • July 27, 1977 (1977-07-27)
[1]
Running time
140 min.CountryUSSRLanguageRussian

An Almost Funny Story (Russian: Почти смешная история, romanized: Pochti smeshnaya istoriya) is a 1977 Soviet two-part television film directed by Pyotr Fomenko.

Plot

The love story of two already middle-aged people. Two sisters come to a small town on the Volga to rest. One is about fifty, the other is a little younger. They get acquainted with the most ordinary business trip, who does not at all understand that the youngest of the sisters, a little eccentric, fell in love with him at first sight.

Cast

  • Olga Antonova as Illaria Pavlovna
  • Lyudmila Arinina as Taisia Pavlovna, Illaria's sister
  • Mikhail Gluzsky as Viktor Meshkov
  • Valentin Gaft as fellow traveler on the train
  • Maria Mironova as telegraph operator
  • Svetlana Kharitonova as conductor
  • Lyudmila Polyakova as a client at the hairdresser
  • Boris Leskin as TV master

The songs are performed by Sergey Nikitin and Tatyana Nikitina.[2]

Production

Filming took place in Yaroslavl, Plyos, Odessa, and Moscow.[3]

References

  1. ^ Раззаков, Федор (6 April 2011). Гибель советского ТВ. Litres. ISBN 9785457021716 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Почти смешная история". Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  3. ^ "Odessa Film Encyclopedia". An Almost Funny Story.
  • An Almost Funny Story at IMDb


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