Dear Yelena Sergeevna
Dear Yelena Sergeevna | |
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Directed by | Eldar Ryazanov |
Written by |
Eldar Ryazanov Lyudmila Razumovskaya |
Starring |
Marina Neyolova Natalia Shchukina Dmitry Maryanov |
Music by | Gennadi Aleksandrov |
Cinematography | Vadim Alisov |
Production company | |
Release dates | 12 April 1988 |
Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Dear Yelena Sergeevna[1] (Russian: Дорогая Елена Сергеевна, translit. Dorogaya Yelena Sergeevna[2]) is a 1988 Soviet drama film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. Film, shot in the style of social drama, based on the novel of the same name by Lyudmila Razumovskaya.
Plot
…After the final exams at a regular school, three schoolchildren understand that they have not passed the exams, and it can break their future career. Fraudulently the teenagers enter the house of their teacher Yelena Sergeevna and demand the key to the safe in which the examination papers are stored. At first, schoolchildren try to persuade Yelena Sergeevna, then they come to bribery and blackmail. But the high-minded teacher does not agree to the deal with her conscience and tries to explain to her schoolchildren all the meanness and baseness of their actions...
Cast
- Marina Neyolova - Yelena Sergeevna, teacher
- Natalia Shchukina - Lala, Yelena Sergeevna's schoolgirl
- Dmitry Maryanov - Paul, Yelena Sergeevna's schoolboy (voice - Andrew Tashkov)
- Fedor Dunaevsky - Victor, Yelena Sergeevna's schoolboy
- Andrew Tikhomirnov - Vladimir, Yelena Sergeevna's schoolboy (voice - Oleg Menshikov)
- Eldar Ryazanov - Yelena Sergeevna's neighbour