“Before the exam” - a Soviet television film directed by Vyacheslav Krishtofovich based on Victoria Tokareva ’s story “Swimming Instructor”.
| Before the exam | |
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Vyacheslav Krishtofovich |
| Composer | Vadim Khrapachev |
| Film company | Studio them. A. Dovzhenko , Creative Association "Ray" |
| Duration | 65 min |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | |
| Year | 1977 |
| IMDb | ID 4876634 |
Content
Story
The heroine of the film is 18-year-old Tanya Gusakova. She did not decide what profession she should choose, at the insistence of her mother is preparing to take exams at the pedagogical institute. Having quarreled with her mother and friend, Tanya wanders down the street, and the stranger gives her a theater ticket. At the performance, next to the heroine sits the one with whom the stranger did not go to the performance. So Tanya meets Ivan, a swimming instructor who has long come to terms with the monotonous and uninteresting life for him. This strange acquaintance convinces Tanya of the need to take her future more seriously.
Cast
- Olga Zhulina - Tanya
- Alla Pokrovskaya - Natalia, mother of Tanya
- Igor Kvasha - Ivan, swimming instructor
- Larisa Udovichenko - Lera, Tanya's friend
- Tatyana Aksyuta - Lena, the bride
- Sergey Ivanov - Lenya, the groom
- Margarita Krinitsyna - Aunt Zhenya, the janitor
- Sergey Brzhestovsky - registrar registry office
In the episodes
- Evgeny Burenkov - episode
- Galina the Afternoon - episode
- George Goryushko - episode
- Valentina Chemen - episode
- Alexander Afanasyev - episode
- Vladimir Borisenko - episode
Film crew
- Script writer: Victoria Tokareva
- Director: Vyacheslav Krishtofovich
- Director of photography: Vasily Trushkovsky
- Production Designer: Sergey Brzhestovsky
- Composer: Vadim Khrapachev
- Sound engineer: Yuri Goretsky