Olga Mashnaya Movies
- 1995
Veteran director Georgi Daneliya proves that he's still in good form with this offbeat romantic comedy. When Oleg Chagin (Kirill Pirogov) learns that back home his fiancée Lena has married another man, he quits his job in Siberia and rushes to Moscow. The film depicts his trials and tribulations while attempting to win her back. ~ Yuri German, Rovi
- Starring:
- Kirill Pirogov, Polina Kutepova, (more)
- 1984
The proposed selfishness of the younger generation in the '80s in Russia is under the microscope in this fast-paced story about Anna, a 19-year-old woman (Olga Machnaia) with a baby in her arms, pleading for help from Vadim (Valeri Priemykhov), a trusting Leningrad cabbie. The wintry slush on the streets and cold nip in the air seem to make her plight all the worse: she just has to get to the airport in time to convince her boyfriend not to leave her and the baby. This is not a simple one-way fare, the woman is also mysteriously running away from the police and other pursuers -- what has she done? As the cabbie helps her avoid capture, he discovers along the way that she does not know how to change a diaper or feed the baby, he does it for her. And so the truth comes out: she has kidnapped the baby in order to convince her boyfriend it is his and that he has to come back to her. Unfortunately, both the truth and the police arrive at about the same time.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Olga Mashnaya, Valeriy Priemykhov, (more)
- 1983
In this standard, serious film about why teenagers or pre-teens go wrong and what can be done to help them, immoral or corrupt parents are as much at fault as the teens themselves. An idealistic camp counselor takes on several of the kids who want to be helped and installs them at his sports camp in the wilderness, generally bending to the teens' wishes whenever possible. At first his liberal-minded attitude backfires because the kids continue their antisocial behavior either out of habit, or just to spite him. Eventually, when the counselor is about to call it quits, the teens rally around him because whether he was aware of it or not, his own decent behavior was having an effect right along. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Valeriy Priemykhov, Andrei Zykov, (more)
- 1983
Director and writer Gleb Panfilov adapted Maxim Gorky's play Vassa Zheleznova for this theatrical film that recounts Vassa's iron rule over a dissipated merchant family several years before the 1917 revolution. When her profligate husband is about to be hauled into court for an act of moral turpitude, Vassa (Inna Churikova) convinces him to commit suicide before he ruins the entire family and their fortune. After he concedes and dies, Vassa spies on everyone in the household and tries to keep her self-indulgent daughters and a high-society brother from harming the family's interest or holdings. Then her Jewish daughter-in-law Rachel (Valentina Telichkina) arrives from Switzerland with news that Vassa's son is dying, and she wants to take their own son, now in Vassa's care, back home with her. The two woman clash in a climactic showdown, and the unexpected result of their altercation sets off a chain of events that presages the grand-scale, 1917 "showdown" to come. This film won the Gold Medal top prize at the 1983 Moscow Film Festival. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Inna Churikova, Vadim Mikhailov, (more)
- 1983
This semi-realistic comedy-fantasy by director and co-writer Georgi Danelia features a lower-level bureaucrat who snaps on the way home from work after a particularly stressful day at the office -- and begins to let loose what he really thinks, no matter the consequences. As his wife is talking on the phone, he grabs the receiver and hangs it up -- she is addicted to talking on the phone and this has always bothered him. His son-in-law and daughter use the television set as a babysitter for the man's granddaughter, and so he blows off steam at them too, demanding his son-in-law go out and find a job. Then he leaves and, after some minor adventures, heads to the office the following morning where he tells everyone else off -- all the petty crooks who take or give small bribes for favors. Although in the end he cannot stand life at all and tries several versions of suicide, he fails miserably each time and finally talks to his granddaughter on the phone who seems to have a remedy for him. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Yevgeny Leonov, Iya Savvina, (more)
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