Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
Shurik, a kind but naïve ethnography student, falls in love with the intelligent, athletic and beautiful All-Union Leninist Young Communist League member Nina. He has a rival in the wealthy comrade Saakhov, who concocts a kidnapping scheme to force Nina to marry him.
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Yevgeni Morgunov — Byvalyy
- Vladimir Etush — сomrade Saakhov
- Mher Mkrtchyan — Dzhabrail
- Ruslan Akhmetov — Edik
- Noy Avaliani — hotel worker
- Nina Grebeshkova — doctor
- Mikhail Gluzskiy — hotel administrator
- Emmanuil Geller — shashlychnik
- Georgi Millyar — hospitable host
- Donara Mkrtchyan — Dzhabrail's wife
- Pyotr Repnin — head physician of the mental hospital
- Directed
- Leonid Gaidai
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 287 ratings
- Studio
- Mosfilm
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
