Love with privileges

The film takes place during the time of Perestroika . While on vacation in a closed sanatorium, a senior pensioner, former Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Konstantin Gavrilovich Kozhemyakin ( Vyacheslav Tikhonov ), a representative of the party elite of the USSR , meets Irina ( Lyubov Polishchuk ), a woman much younger than him, an ordinary employee of this sanatorium. Love arises between them, Kozhemyakin makes an offer to Irina, takes her with him to Moscow and marries her.

Irina falls into the circle of the Soviet elite , gets acquainted with high-ranking neighbors, gets access to high quality services, overseas curiosities, other shortages and other privileges . It’s as if Konstantin doesn’t notice that she is “from a different circle” (although she advises not to invite her son-in-law to a general meeting, explaining that they “don’t understand each other with his children, this is a different sphere of communication”), behaves with her on equal terms.

In Moscow, taking advantage of her husband’s acquaintances, Irina inquires about the circumstances of the arrest of her father, who was repressed after the war and executed in 1952 (the family was sent to Vorkuta , and his mother died there soon). And it turns out that in Stalin's times her new husband was one of those who signed the letter of "collective conviction", after which her father was shot. The KGB general, whom Irina addressed on this issue, tells Konstantin Gavrilovich about the visit. There is an explanation between the spouses. Irina does not consider it possible to continue to connect her life with the person involved in the death of her father, and breaks with Konstantin. Trying to make amends, Konstantin tries through his channels to “knock out” an apartment for his wife (instead of what was lost during the expulsion), but new times have come, and this is not easy. As a result, nevertheless, he succeeds, and Irina accepts an apartment, which gives Kozhemyakin an occasion to consider his “noble” gesture as an excuse for that long-standing act. In the finale, however, he remains convinced that the so-called "ordinary people" depend on the nomenclature , and this order of things is unshakable.

• Lyubov Polishchuk - Irina Vasilievna Nikolaeva
• Vyacheslav Tikhonov - Konstantin Gavrilovich Kozhemyakin
• Oleg Tabakov - Nikolai Petrovich, KGB General
• Lidia Fedoseeva-Shukshina - Maria Spiridonovna
• Peter Shcherbakov - Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Council
• Igor Volkov - Boris (voiced by Sergey Garmash )
• Alexander Feklistov - Lev Petrovich, dismissed attending physician Kozhemyakin
• Lyudmila Koryushkina - Katya, a cook in a sanatorium (in credits Lyudmila Ilyashevskaya)
• Svetlana Zhgun - resting brawler, production leader
• Irina Gordina - Nyura, daughter of Irina
• Vladimir Gurkalo - Igor, son-in-law of Irina
• Yuri Sarantsev - Nikolay Evgenievich Kondakov, new doctor of Kozhemyakin
• Lev Butenin - director of the sanatorium
• Nikolai Dupak - Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
• Alexandra Nazarova - Antonina Petrovna, housekeeper
• Yurate Onaytite - Margarita Pavlovna Krasikova
• Alexander Baluev - Kozhemyakin Jr.
• Anatoly Vedenkin - Vasily, driver Kozhemyakina
• Galina Stakhanova - an old - timer
• Elena Bogdanova - old woman in the arch
• Inga Budkevich - registrar of the registry office
• Valentina Dugina - wife of Nikolai Petrovich
• Alexander Kuzmichyov - Petya, Boris's partner (not in the credits)
• Alika Smekhova - waitress
• Fedor Odinokov - general, guest at the wedding
• Victor Rozhdestvensky - vacationer in a sanatorium
• Vadim Vilsky - guest at the wedding
• Arkady Nasyrov - a tapman in a sanatorium (not in the credits)

• Script writer: Emil Braginsky , Valentin Chernykh
• Director: Vladimir Kuchinsky
• Operator: Felix Kefchiyan
• Composer: Alemdar Karamanov
• Artist: Gennady Baburov

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