An Old-Fashioned Comedy

An Old-Fashioned Comedy

1980 · 92 min · ★ 4.8 · Drama, Romance

The meeting between the chief physician of the sanatorium Rodion Nikolayevich and the patient Lydia Vasilievna begins with a conflict: the woman managed to break the sanatorium regime in the very first days of her stay. However, soon the acquaintance of two middle-aged people turns into friendship, and then into mutual sympathy.

Directed by Era Savelyeva · Written by Vladimir Zheleznikov

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Alisa Freyndlikh Lidiya Vasilyevna
Igor Vladimirov Rodion Nikolayevich
Tamara Sovchi barmaid (uncredited)
Boris Tokarev Lidiya Vasilyevna's son (uncredited)
Galina Besedina singer in a cafe (uncredited)

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