A WEARY ROAD
DIRECTORS LEONID GAIDAI, VALENTIN NEVZOROV
Script MIKHAIL ROMM, BORIS BRODSKY
Camera SERGEY POLUYANOV
Design ALEXEI UTKIN
Music YURI BIRYUKOV
Cast SERGEY YAKOVLEV, KYUNNA IGNATOVA,
LEONID GUBANOV, VLADIMIR BELOKUROV,
NIKIFOR KOLOFIDIN, ALEXANDER ANTONOV,
GEORGY BUDAROV, VLADIMIR POKROVSKY,
IVAN RYZHOV, APOLLON YACHNITSKY
Production MOSFILM
USSR, 1956, 80’
5 October 17:00, Gurzufsky House of Culture
2 October 17:00, Auto Club
A satirical comedy about bureaucrats in the Soviet Union of the 1950’s. The virtuoso bureaucrat Petukhov finds himself in an incredible situation: upon his return home together with his bride, he discovers that he has been proclaimed dead, and on completely legal grounds. The fact is that the body of a man who died in a car accident (a pickpocket who stole a wallet from Petukhov) was mistaken for Petukhov. In an attempt to prove his existence, the hero tries to obtain a certificate that he is alive using usual bureaucratic means.