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Directed by
  
Eldar Ryazanov

Production company
  
Mosfilm

Director
  
Eldar Ryazanov

Music director
  
Anatoly Lepin

7/10
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Music by
  
Anatoly Lepin

Initial release
  
1964

Production company
  
Mosfilm

Starring
  
Oleg Borisov Larisa Golubkina Anatoly Kuznetsov Anatoli Papanov Nikolai Kryuchkov

Cinematography
  
Vladimir Nakhabtsev Anatoly Mukasey

Release date
  
23 July 1965 (1965-07-23)

Written by
  
Alexander Galich, Boris Laskin

Cast
  
Larisa Golubkina, Anatoli Papanov, Oleg Borisov, Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, Nikolai Kryuchkov

Similar
  
Grandads‑Robbers, Zigzag of Success, Beware of the Car, The Girl Without an Address, Hussar Ballad

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Give Me a Book of Complaints (Russian: Дайте жалобную книгу, Dayte zhalobnuyu knigu is a 1965 Soviet comedy film directed by Eldar Ryazanov.

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Plot

A group of young journalists accidentally walks into the restaurant "Dandelion". The atmosphere in the restaurant is extremely unhealthy: rude waitresses, thieving barmaid, wretched interior, ridiculous restaurant singer and deputy director Kutaytsev, who is constantly drunk and encourages this mess. However, the young and energetic director of the restaurant Tatiana Shumova is trying, unsuccessfully, to deal with shortcomings of the restaurant that she was entrusted with.

Journalist Yuri Nikitin wrote a critical article about the restaurant, but hopelessly falls in love with Tatiana. Despite the opposition of bureaucrats, the young director Shumova manages to change the situation, making the restaurant an exemplary catering establishment, as well as finding love along the way...

Cast

  • Oleg Borisov as Yuri Nikitin, journalist of the newspaper Youth
  • Larisa Golubkina as Tatiana Shumova, director of the restaurant "Dandelion"
  • Anatoly Kuznetsov as Ivan Kondakov, head of the regional department of trade, Tatiana's bridegroom
  • Anatoli Papanov as Vasily Kutaytsev, deputy director of the restaurant "Dandelion"
  • Nikolai Kryuchkov as Nikolay Ivanovich, head of department of trade
  • Nikolai Parfenov as Ivan Postnikov, deputy of head of department of trade
  • Nina Agapova as barmaid Zinaida
  • Tatyana Gavrilova as waitress Claudia Raspopova
  • Natalia Surovegina as young waitress Raya
  • Zoya Isaeva as waitress Vera
  • Rina Zelyonaya as elderly singer at the restaurant "Dandelion"
  • Larisa Mondrus as new and young singer at the restaurant "Dandelion"
  • Georgi Tusuzov as Pavel Kuzmich, doorman of the restaurant "Dandelion"
  • Jemal Sikharulidze as Tengiz, journalist, Yuri Nikitin's friend
  • Michaela Drozdovskaya as Masha, Tengiz's wife
  • Yuri Belov as German, journalist, Yuri Nikitin's friend
  • Vladimir Balon as journalist, Yuri Nikitin's friend
  • Felix Jaworski as bespectacled journalist
  • Eldar Ryazanov as chief editor of the newspaper Youth
  • Zoya Fyodorova as Yekaterina Ivanovna, janitor of Tatiana Shumova's house
  • Mikhail Pugovkin as Tatiana Shumova's neighbour
  • Vladimir Shiryaev as Sasha, student
  • Lyudmila Gnilova as Tamara, student
  • Vera Popova as old lady
  • Leonid Chubarov as policeman
  • Alexander Lenkov as leader of the youth ensemble
  • Yuri Nikulin as salesman in a clothing store, drunken rowdy to the restaurant "Dandelion"
  • Georgy Vitsin as chief of the branch in a clothing store, drunken rowdy to the restaurant "Dandelion"
  • Yevgeny Morgunov as director of clothing store, drunken rowdy to the restaurant "Dandelion"

    • References

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