The Wedding

The Wedding

114 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 14, 2000

The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.

The Wedding

114 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 14, 2000

The Wedding
The beautiful Tanya returns to her small mining town, after supposedly working as a model in Moscow. She decides to marry her shy school sweetheart Mishka, who now works in the mine. The miners finally receive some pay, but Mishka still ends up with no money to buy his bride a gift, so he seeks the help of his perpetually drunk buddy Garkusha. Mishka's poor working-class family all help to put on a fine wedding with copious amounts of vodka, even though they are suspicious of Tanya's occupation in Moscow, and of her connection with her Mafia ex-boyfriend Borodin.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, ARTE France Cinéma, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, Etalon-Film, Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion (I), Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP), Filmbüro Süd, Mosfilm
Original title Свадьба
Directors Pavel Lungin
Writers Aleksandr Galin

Cast

Marat Basharov

as Mikhail 'Mishka' Krapivin

Mariya Mironova

as Tanya

Andrei Panin

as Garkusha

Aleksandr Semchev

as Borzov

Vladimir Simonov

as Borodin

Mariya Golubkina

as Sveta

Oleg Esaulenko

as Svetlanov

Marina Golub

as Cafe Manager

Vladimir Kashpur

as Mishka's Grandfather

Aleksey Panin

as Militia Man

Galina Petrova

as Mishka's Mother

Pavel Polmatov

as Tolya

Nadezhda Markina

as Mishka's devout sister

Elena Novikova

as Zoika

Anna Shtukaturova

as Young Tania

Mikhail Matveev

as Krotov

Vladimir Episkoposyan

as Street Vendor

Daniil Belykh

as Cook

Ilya Rutberg

as Kamussidi

Vladimir Salnikov

as Mishka's Father

Aleksei Mironov

as Old Policeman

Aleksey Salpanov

as Cement Truck Driver

Andrey Bronnikov

as Orphanage Caretaker

Aleksandr Robak

as Bodyguard