Noisy day

One day in the life of the Soviet family.
Klavdia Vasilievna Savina ( Valentina Sperantova ) lives in an old Moscow apartment. She has four children, everyone lives with her. The elder Fedor ( Gennady Pechnikov ) - a chemist , Ph.D. , recently married; His wife's name is Lena ( Lilia Tolmachyova ). Daughter Tatiana ( Tatiana Nadezhdina ) - she is nineteen years old - is studying at the institute . Eighteen-year-old Nikolai ( Vladimir Zemlyannikin ) works in repair shops. The youngest, Oleg ( Oleg Tabakov ), is fifteen.

In the morning, Lena is in a hurry for the sale of Czech sideboards . They should soon be given a separate apartment, and therefore Lena stands idle in queues for them all day long. The large central room, where the family gathers at the table, is filled with furniture that has already been bought. The furniture is covered with covers and rags, and no one touches it, as Lena is afraid to spoil anything. She speaks with her husband only about furniture and money, without ceasing to “sharpen” him.

Ivan Nikitich Lapshin ( Yevgeny Perov ) and his son Gena ( Lev Krugly ) come to the Savins. They have been coming to Moscow for years to visit his brother Ivan Nikitich, who is a neighbor to Savin. Gena is in love with Tanya and shy of his father, who prefers to borrow from another than to spend his own. Ivan Nikitich is trying to marry his son and for this he bought him an accordion , as with the instrument "respect will be." He believes that young people grow up too clever, began to argue a lot. At breakfast, he laughs at his son, at all telling about him various funny and ridiculous details. Oleg sympathizes with Gena and, when Lapshin tries to teach him, he explodes and makes Lapshin a remark. He is offended and leaves.

Leonid Pavlovich comes to Fedor. He is 32 years old, he is a graduate student , he earns well, his parents are in China now. Leonid caring for Tanya. When Gena sees him, he wants to leave, but Oleg stops him to look at the fish in the aquarium . Departing from him, Oleg touches a vial of ink on a new desk , bought by Lena, and overturns it. Ink poured over the table. Oleg is terrified. He and Gena are trying in vain to wipe the puddle. Gene is going to take the blame on himself, but Oleg does not agree: Lena must understand that he did it by accident.

Lena brings a sideboard. She admires the thing and tells what she endured. Oleg tries to talk to her, but she shrugs off, starts a conversation with Tanya about Leonid, persuades her to marry him, as he is a brilliant party. Oleg finally manages to tell everything. Before that, he takes from Lena a word that she will not scold him. But Lena swears and calls Oleg a name, and having learned that it happened because of the fish, he grabs the aquarium and throws it out the window. Oleg, crying, tears the covers off the furniture, grabs his deceased father's checker , starts chopping things up and runs away. Gena and Kohl rush after him. Lena, like mad, rushing from thing to thing.

Some things endure. Lena is getting bad. Klavdiya Vasilievna worries that Oleg ran away from home.

Leonid and Tanya remain alone. Leonid uses the moment to remind Tanya of her feelings once again. Tanya does not listen to him. She remembers how they lived together once and happily. Now, all this has changed, since Fedor, who everyone loved very much, has changed. Tanya is interested in how Fedor is treated at work. According to Leonid, Fedor develops his behavior in life. Tanya is amazed and disappointed.

Fedor is trying to calm Lena. She reproaches her husband that he does not care for her, that everyone insults and hates her, and that she no longer wants to live here for a single day. Fedor is trying to justify Lena in front of his mother. But she only regrets that the son becomes a different, tradesman .

Oleg and Gennady come, who hid Oleg in his room until the scandal broke. Gena leads father - going home. Enter Fedor and Lena. The exchange of remarks begins, Lena, in response to a careless remark, begins to chase Oleg and tries to beat him, Oleg runs off into the attic. Fedor separates them there. When Lena leaves, Oleg says that he will give all the money for the furniture when he grows up and also starts writing poetry for money and notices that Fedor is crying. Gene comes and gives Oleg a new aquarium. Oleg is happy at first, but, realizing that the fish had been bought for the hundred stolen from Gennady from his father, he refused the gift.

Lena asks Leonid to let them live with Fyodor until the autumn. Leonid agree. Fedor is not happy with the move. Gene asks Fedor to borrow a hundred rubles. Lena refuses him, but under the persuasion of her husband still gives money. Gene brings her accordion as a pledge.

When Gena and Tanya are left alone, he gives Tanya spirits and confesses her love. Tanya is surprised by Gena's eloquence. She calls him with his father to drink tea before leaving. Suddenly, Gena publicly declares to his father that he stole money from him, and gives him a hundred. Oleg runs into the corridor and brings an aquarium donated by Gena, puts it in its place.

At the table again tied the dispute. Klavdiya Vasilievna is sure that Lena sells the best human qualities for things, that life is too short to leave everything you strive for just to furnish an apartment. Tanya calls Lena "breakthrough." Lena is shocked, she says that they will never understand her and that they better live apart. Claudia Vasilyevna against Fedinoy move. Fedor hesitates, but under the pressure of Lena and Leonid is inferior to them. He gives the mother his main manuscript and asks to save it.

Lapshin, in anger, that Gena confessed about money for all, wants to beat him, but he is not given to him for the first time. Tanya calls Gena to Moscow next year, promises to write. Leonid, Fedor and Lena leave.

• Valentina Sperantova - Klavdiya Vasilievna Savina
• Gennady Pechnikov - Fedor Savin
• Tatyana Nadezhdina - Tatyana Savina
• Vladimir Zemlyannikin - Nikolay Savin
• Oleg Tabakov - Oleg Savin
• Lilia Tolmachyova - Helenka, Fedor's wife
• Evgeniy Perov - Ivan Nikitich Lapshin
• Lion Round - Gennady Lapshin
• Victoria Dukhina - Marina
• Robert Chumak - Leonid Pavlovich
• Inna Gulaya - Fira Kantorovich
• E. Savchenko - Vera
• Alexandra Danilova - Taisiya Nikolaevna

Victor Rozov wrote not indifferent plays in which the author has always been concerned with the fate of an ordinary person ^[2] .

The screen version of the play “In Search of Joy” is a sad and at the same time cheerful story about one day in the life of a large Moscow family, in which the mother ( Valentina Sperantova ) and four adult children perfectly get along with each other, love and understand each other perfectly. But once the usual peace is broken by the marriage of the eldest son Fedor on the “pretty burglar ” Lenochka. One day, which made the lives of loved ones unbearable and divorced members of a once-close-knit family.

The young woman turns out to be an active accumulator, and soon the life of the family turns into a nightmare. The main opponent of the predator is a teenage boy ( Oleg Tabakov ), who rebelled against the petty-bourgeois limitations.

The hero who cuts his father's sword as an enemy into a civil , polished cabinet that filled the whole living space and symbolized the stuffiness of the cozy life of the Soviet inhabitant ^[3] is an allegory of the collision of two epochs: the early Soviet, full of heroism, romance and disintegration, and replacing it in the late 50s of the Soviet consumer era. The character of Tabakov became a symbol of the youth movement of the 1950s – 60s (the future " sixties "), and the film by Nathanson and Efros expressed the rebellious spirit of the Sovremennik Theater ^[4] . In the picture, however, the furniture is not only the reason and symbol. In fact, in a Moscow apartment, as in the world, two worldviews and different ideas about life values ​​collide. The apartment is like a closed space and at the same time as the scene with the drama played on it acquires a sacred meaning.

Ending the school and entering into a difficult “adult” life, Tabakov’s hero understands that the unworthy and the contemptible have always been and always will be, but he absolutely does not want to put up with hoarding and philistinism, putting his life program into verses:

"As if at the beginning of the road
I am standing on my way.
Carry, legs,
Do not let the road turn!
I know: there are paths,
Leading to quiet comfort,
Where reptiles make nests,
Where pitiful creatures live.
But there is no way for me there,
The paths to these thickets are not.
Carry, legs,
In the world of unqualified victories!

• The text of the play by V. Rozov "In Search of Joy" in the library of Maxim Moshkov
• Listen "Theater at the microphone" - radio play "In view of joy" by V. Rozov

Used materials sites:

• The film on "Ruskino.ru"
• Film on “Kino-Theater.ru”
• Film // “Russia” TV Channel
• The film on "Rusactors.ru"