''The Girl Without an Address'' ()) is a 1957 Soviet

romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Ro ...

film directed by

Eldar Ryazanov Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (; 18 November 1927 – 30 November 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrat ...

and written by Leonid Lench. Produced during the

Khrushchev Thaw The Khrushchev Thaw (, or simply ''ottepel'')William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, London: Free Press, 2004 is the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s when Political repression in the Soviet Union, repression and Censorship in ...

, it stars Svetlana Karpinskaya and

Nikolai Rybnikov Nikolai Nikolayevich Rybnikov (; 13 December 1930 – 22 October 1990) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981). Biography Early life and education Nikolai Nikolayevich Rybnikov was born on 13 December 1930 in Bor ...

. The film tells the story of a young construction worker who searches tirelessly through Moscow for the spirited girl he met on a train, while she embarks on her own journey of self-discovery through a series of odd jobs and misadventures.

Plot

Young construction worker Pasha Gusarov meets a strong-willed girl, Katya Ivanova, on a train. At first, their interactions are rocky, but by the end of the journey, they decide they don't want to part ways. However, leaving the train through different doors, they fail to meet at the station. The only clue Pasha has about Katya's whereabouts is a fragment of her grandfather's address, starting with "Nikolo...". Despite the enormity of Moscow, Pasha embarks on a determined search, calculating that visiting every possible "Nikolo..." address might take three years. Meanwhile, Katya stays with her grandfather, who works as a janitor at the district council. After failing to become an actress at the Operetta Theater, Katya takes a job as an elevator operator in her building. Following a quarrel with her grandfather, she leaves home to prove she can succeed on her own. Katya tries various jobs. She quits as a housemaid after a flood caused by her employer's husband. She works in road maintenance and as a model, but leaves the latter job after a chance sighting of Pasha outside the window during a fashion show. She chases after him in a show dress but fails to catch up, prompting her resignation. Katya's friend helps her secure a courier position at a "transfer office." However, she does not stay long, convincing the management that their office is redundant within the national economy. The office is shut down, and the employees are reassigned to construction work. Katya, however, decides to leave Moscow entirely. At the very train station where she and Pasha had parted ways, they finally reunite.

Cast

* Svetlana Karpinskaya as Katya Ivanova *

as Pasha Gusarov *

Erast Garin Erast Pavlovich Garin (September 4, 1980, born Gerasimov) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter. He was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic actors of Vsevolod Meyerhold's company and of ...

as Grandfather * Vasili Toporkov as Cloakroom attendant * Yuri Belov as Mitya * Svetlana Shcherbak as Olya *

Zoya Fyodorova Zoya Alekseyevna Fyodorova (also Fedorova) (; 11 December 1981) was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova in January 1946. Having rejected the advances of N ...

as Komarinskaya *

Sergey Filippov Sergey Nikolayevich Filippov (, 24 June 1912 — 19 April 1990) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor and comedian, best known for his parts in films ''Adventures of Korzinkina'' (1941), ''The Night Patrol'' (1957) and the adaptation of ...

as Komarinsky *

Rina Zelyonaya Ekaterina Vasilyevna Zelyonaya (); ( — 1 April 1991, Moscow), better known by her stage name Rina Zelyonaya, was a Soviet actress, singer and comedian. She was named People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1970. Biography Ekaterina Zelyonaya was bor ...

as Yelizaveta Timofeyevna * Pavel Tarasov as Commandant *

Svetlana Kharitonova Svetlana Nikolayevna Kharitonova (; 30 January 1932, in Moscow — 8 January 2012, in Moscow) was a Russian actress. She performed in more than fifty films between 1955 and 1991. She was the first wife of actor Leonid Kharitonov (actor), Leonid ...

as Klava * Olga Aroseva as Neighbour * Georgiy Georgiu as Tenant *

Georgi Tusuzov Georgi may refer to: * Georgi (given name) * Georgi (surname) See also *Georgy (disambiguation) *Georgii (disambiguation) Georgii may refer to: ;Given name * Georgii Zantaraia (born 1987), Ukrainian judoka of Georgian origin *Georgii Karpechenko ...

as Feoktistych * Lidiya Korolyova as Yekaterina Ivanova *

Valentina Ananina Valentina Georgievna Ananina (; May 18, 1933, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. Biography Valentina Ananina was born May 18, 1933, in Moscow. In 1957 she graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography The G ...

as Secretary *

Irina Murzaeva Irina Vsevolodovna Murzaeva (; May 15, 1906 — January 3, 1988) was a Soviet actress of theater and cinema. Biography She graduated from the Lunacharsky Theater College (1927). In 1927-1928 and 1930-1931 an actress Sverdlovsk Youth Theater, ...

as Conductor *

Irina Gubanova Irina Igorevna Gubanova (; 1940–2000) was a Russian ballerina and film actress.Cowie / Elley p.644 She was married to the actor Sergei Gurzo. Selected filmography * '' The Girl Without an Address'' (1958) * '' The Queen of Spades'' (1960) as ...

as Neighbour * Mikhail Garkavi as Actor stuck in the elevator * Marina Figner as Fashion Designer

References

External links

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''The Girl Without an Address''
with English and Russian subtitles. 1957 romantic comedy films Soviet romantic comedy films Russian romantic comedy films Russian-language romantic comedy films Films directed by Eldar Ryazanov 1950s Soviet films 1950s Russian-language films Mosfilm films {{1950s-romantic-comedy-film-stub