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''Afonya'' () is a
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romantic
comedy-drama film Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and drama. In film, as well as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as death, illness, betrayal, grief, etc. ...
produced by
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and first released in 1975. The film became the Soviet box office leader of 1975 with a total of 62.2 million ticket sales. The film was shot on location in
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.История создания фильма Афоня
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Plot summary

Plumber A plumber is a tradesperson who specializes in installing and maintaining systems used for potable (drinking) water, hot-water production, sewage and drainage in plumbing systems.
– Afanasy "Afonya" Borshchov ( Leonid Kuravlev) and his friend Fedulov (
Borislav Brondukov Boryslav Mykolayovych Brondukov (; ; 1 March 1938 – 10 March 2004) was a Ukrainian film character actor, People's Artist of Ukraine.
) spend all day and night avoiding work and finding opportunities to drink. Afanasy takes " kickbacks" from clients and is often in trouble with the local committee for his behaviour. Afanasy also often uses foreign or old-fashioned names to introduce himself to strangers to seem more interesting. Afanasy meets plasterer Kolya (
Yevgeny Leonov Yevgeny Pavlovich Leonov (; 2 September 1926 – 29 January 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films, such as '' Gentlemen of Fortune'', '' Mimino'' and '' Striped Trip''. Called "one ...
) in a pub, gets drunk and comes home. When his girlfriend sees the state he's in, she leaves him. The next morning he can't even remember yesterday's drinking companion. Things continue to go downhill for Afanasy. When student interns from the vocational school are allocated to the plumbers, ZhEK master Vostryakova ( Valentina Talyzina) doesn't allocate any to him, fearing that he will not teach them well. Afanasy begs for trainees and gets two. Having worked with him for one day and having seen his attitude and working methods, the trainees refuse to work with him anymore. When Afanasy returns home, Kolya arrives to live at his place for a while, having been thrown out of his house by his wife. At a dance Afanasy meets young nurse Katya Snegireva ( Yevgeniya Simonova), who knows about him through her brother, who used to play in Afanasy's volleyball team. Afanasy doesn't pay her much attention, because he's more interested in older women and already has his eye on one at the dance. However, a romantic walk with the older woman after the dance is over before it begins – Afanasy is challenged to a fight by a hooligan, who he'd quarreled with at the dance. The hooligan's friends join in, and finish the unequal fight. Katya worries for Afanasy's safety, and calls the police- which will only bring Afanasy to the committee's attention again. At a regular work call Borshchov meets Helen ( Nina Maslova) and falls in love at first sight. He starts finding any excuse to work in her flat - even fooling a tenant, astronomer ( Gotlib Roninson), by swapping his new Finnish sink for an old one, so he can install the Finnish sink in Helen's home as a gift. In his dreams Afanasy sees a family idyll with his wife Helen and their perfect children. Katya Snegireva, head over heels for Afanasy, keeps engineering new meetings with him, and stops at nothing to attract his attention: "Afanasy! someone called, I thought it was you...". Afonya is completely oblivious to her feelings. Meanwhile Afanasy’s run in with the police catches up with him and, for persistent drunkenness, truancy and fighting Afanasy is threatened with being sacked at a meeting of the local committee. In addition, if he doesn't restore the Finnish sink he's definitely going to be fired. Afanasy takes a porcelain sink with flowers to Helen to swap with the Finnish sink, but meets Helen coming home with company. She makes her feelings quite clear: she has her own life among fashionable and wealthy men, and Afanasy is just a plumber. Afanasy, depressed, goes to a restaurant with Fedulov and tries to escape into drunkenness, but it doesn't help. In his drunken state he goes to Katya Snegireva's home and proposes marriage, and wakes up next to her in the morning. Katya tells him she's due to move to Africa with work and wonders if she should cancel for Afanasy. Afanasy then decides to go back to his village, to his aunt Frosya ( Raisa Kurkina), a simple and modest woman who had brought him up. In the village, he meets his childhood friend Fidget ( Savely Kramarov) and, in a joyous moment sends the city a telegram resigning from his job and giving up his apartment. Only then does he learn that Aunt Frosya died two years ago. The village people had sent him a telegram, which he hadn't received because he had moved house and didn't tell them his new address. From his neighbor, Uncle Yegor ( Nikolai Grinko) Afanasy learns that Frosya deeply missed him and even wrote letters to herself from his name, posting them in a nearby village, then receiving them and reading them to neighbors, who understood that she really wrote the letters herself, but didn't betray it so as not to hurt Frosya's feelings. Frosya had died sitting in front of the window, waiting for Afanasy. Afanasy’s depression deepens – he has lost everything and has nowhere to go. He goes to the post office and tries to call Katya Snegireva on her memorable phone number 50-50-2, or as he says himself, "rug-rug or two." The answer comes back - Katya has left. Finally frustrated, he goes to the
airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial Aviation, air transport. They usually consist of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surf ...
. He does not care where he's going or what will happen to him. Things have gotten so bad that a local policeman has to be convinced Afanasy is the man in his passport photograph, so grim has he gotten since it was taken. Finally, just when Afanasy is heading to the
AN-2 The Antonov An-2 ( USAF/DoD reporting name Type 22, NATO reporting name Colt) is a Soviet mass-produced single-engine biplane utility/agricultural aircraft designed and manufactured by the Antonov Design Bureau beginning in 1947. Its durabili ...
aircraft, a familiar girlish voice calls out. It's Katya, suitcase in hand: "Afanasy!, someone called, I thought it was you... "


Cast

* Leonid Kuravlev as ''Afanasy "Afonya" Borshchov'' * Yevgeniya Simonova as ''Katya Snegireva''«ИОАНН ВАСИЛЬЕВИЧ» трапезные палаты : ПИВНАЯ «АФОНЯ»
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Yevgeny Leonov Yevgeny Pavlovich Leonov (; 2 September 1926 – 29 January 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films, such as '' Gentlemen of Fortune'', '' Mimino'' and '' Striped Trip''. Called "one ...
as ''Kolya'' * Savely Kramarov as ''Fidget'' * Nina Maslova as ''Elena (Elena, Helene), Beauty of the 139th flats'' *
Borislav Brondukov Boryslav Mykolayovych Brondukov (; ; 1 March 1938 – 10 March 2004) was a Ukrainian film character actor, People's Artist of Ukraine.
as ''Fedulov'' * Igor Bogolyubov as ''old Peregar'' * Valentina Talyzina as ''Vostryakova'' *
Vladimir Basov Vladimir Pavlovich Basov (28 July 192317 September 1987) was a Soviet Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1983. Biography Vladimir Basov was born in the Urazovo village, Voronezh Governor ...
as ''Vladimir Ivanovich'' * Nikolay Parfyonov as ''Fomin, Boris Petrovich'' * Gotlib Roninson as ''astronomer ("Archimedes")'' * Raisa Kurkina as ''Aunt Frosya'' *
Nina Ruslanova Nina Ivanovna Ruslanova (; 5 December 1945 – 21 November 2021) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. She was honored as a People's Artist of Russia (1998).
as ''Tamara'' * Nikolai Grabbe as ''the chief of housing offices'' * Nikolai Grinko as ''Uncle Yegor'' * Gennady Yalovich as ''the director in the theater'' * Radner Muratov as ''Marat Rakhimov'' *
Tamara Sovchi Tamara may refer to: People * Tamara (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Tamara Macarena Valcárcel Serrano, Spanish singer, also known mononymously as Tamara * Tamara, another stage name of Spanis ...
as ''cashier''dining * Yusup Daniyal as ''cashier dining companion'' * Mikhail Vaskov as ''the policeman at the airport'' * Peter Lyubeshkin as ''Uncle Pavel Shevchenko'' * Renee Hobua as ''not featured in the film, although there is in the credits'' *
Alexei Vanin Alexey ( ; ), is a Russian and Bulgarian male given name derived from the Greek ''Aléxios'' (), meaning "Defender", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Alexius. Similar Ukrainian and Belarusian names are romanized as Oleksii (Олек ...
as ''Ivan Orlov, Elena's husband'' * Capitolina Ilienko as ''a participant in the meeting of housing the office'' * Aleksandr Potapov as ''employee of housing offices'' *
Mikhail Svetin Mikhail Semyonovich Svetin (; born Michail Solomonovitch Goltsman; 11 December 1929 – 30 August 2015) was a Soviet, Russian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films. Svetin's room 2.JPG, Makeup room at the Comedy Theatre The Haro ...
as ''the driver Voronkov'' * Tatiana Rasputina as ''a dance partner Afonyia'' *
Alexander Novikov Alexander Alexandrovich Novikov (; – 3 December 1976) was the chief marshal of aviation for the Soviet Air Forces during the Soviet Union's involvement in the World War II, Second World War. Lauded as "the man who has piloted the Red Air F ...
as ''a bully with a beard''


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* * {{Georgiy Daneliya 1975 films 1970s romantic comedy-drama films Soviet romantic comedy-drama films 1970s Russian-language films Films about alcoholism Films set in the 1970s Films set in Russia Films set in the Soviet Union Films shot in Moscow Films shot in Yaroslavl Oblast Films directed by Georgiy Daneliya Mosfilm films Films scored by Mieczysław Weinberg 1975 comedy-drama films