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6.6/10 Movieo Music by Isaak Shvarts Release date 1984 (1984) Director Vladimir Bortko Production company Lenfilm | 6.6/10 IMDb Directed by Vladimir Bortko Production
company Lenfilm Initial release March 1984 Music director Isaac Schwartz Written by Aleksandr Chervinsky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Tatyana Dogileva
Andrey Mironov
Mark Prudkin
Yevgeniya Khanayeva
Yelena Solovey Cinematography Ivan Bagaev, Valentin Komarov Cast Andrei Mironov, Tatyana Dogileva, Yelena Solovey, Yevgeniya Khanayeva, Mark Prudkin Similar Afghan Breakdown, Edinozhdy solgav, Heart of a Dog, A Forgotten Tune for the Flute, The Idiot | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Blonde Around the Corner (Russian: Блондинка за углом, Blondinka za uglom) is a 1984 Soviet romantic comedy directed by Vladimir Bortko. It tells the story of an astrophysicist who begins to work at a grocery store where he falls in love with a saleswoman. The film became Bortko's breakthrough.
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Plot
Former astrophysicist Nikolai Gavrilovich (Andrey Mironov) who spent fifteen years in a fruitless search for extraterrestrial life, neither aspiring or succeeding to acquire material wealth in life, by fate gets the post of a porter at a local self-service supermarket, where he falls in love with Nadezhda (Tatyana Dogileva), a cute blonde salesgirl of the gastronomic department, whom as it turned out to he saw every morning at the bus stop. She is also fond of him. It is immediately obvious that the businesslike and living below her means Nadezhda is the antithesis of Nikolai - she is practical, penetrating, knows all the "right people" (and she herself is such). But at the same time she is a hopeless romantic and listens to Nikolai's stories about his scientific quests.
Charming Nadezhda as a salesperson is a genuine authority on the "real" life, to which she seeks to involve Nikolai, and sincerely does not understand his stubborn opposition towards her efforts. But she has decided everything and has all planned out. However, unable to cope with his new status and in such an atmosphere, Nikolai runs away from his own wedding.
After receiving a positive confirmation concerning his line of research, he returns to his old job and is leaving for a research trip to the Far North ... Nadezhda promises to get a "deficient" radio telescope which is required for her beau's work and goes along with him.