An Old-Fashioned Comedy

An Old-Fashioned Comedy

92 mins | Drama, Romance | Feb. 11, 1980

Based on the play of the same name by Aleksei Arbuzov. The meeting between the chief physician of the sanatorium Rodion Nikolayevich and the patient Lydia Vasilievna begins with a conflict: the woman managed to break the sanatorium regime in the very first days of her stay. However, soon the acquaintance of two middle-aged people turns into friendship, and then into mutual sympathy...

An Old-Fashioned Comedy

92 mins | Drama, Romance | Feb. 11, 1980

An Old-Fashioned Comedy
Based on the play of the same name by Aleksei Arbuzov. The meeting between the chief physician of the sanatorium Rodion Nikolayevich and the patient Lydia Vasilievna begins with a conflict: the woman managed to break the sanatorium regime in the very first days of her stay. However, soon the acquaintance of two middle-aged people turns into friendship, and then into mutual sympathy...
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Старомодная комедия
Directors Era Savelyeva, Tatyana Berezantseva
Writers Aleksei Arbuzov, Vladimir Zheleznikov

Cast

Alisa Freyndlikh

as Lidiya Vasilyevna

Igor Vladimirov

as Rodion Nikolayevich

Tamara Sovchi

as barmaid (uncredited)

Boris Tokarev

as Lidiya Vasilyevna's son (uncredited)

Galina Besedina

as singer in a cafe (uncredited)