Grandmother's grandson

The psychological drama about friendship and betrayal, love and hate, the ability to forgive and understand each other.

The heroes of the film are Leningrad schoolchildren. David Kaloshyan is an Armenian boy whose family came from Yerevan . He made friends with Sveta Alyoshkina, who was nicknamed Alyoshka in the class. She herself recently moved to this school.

Alyoshka had to grow up early. Her mother found another man and left the family. The girl is very worried, misses her. The father cannot forgive his wife for treason and crosses it out of life. In addition, he works until late, so the girl herself cooks and does all the housework. They don’t love her in class. But she is lively and not judicious by age. When in the middle of the lesson they start laughing at her because she herself had cooked herself a dinner, Alyosha is not lost and asks the teacher if she had dinner. She, bewildered, replies that yes. Alyoshka asks the following question: where did the food come from? And the teacher, not understanding what she was driving towards, said that she herself had prepared dinner for herself. In the class, no one laughs at this. Alyoshka, as an adult, reproaches classmates: just a man told everyone that he cooks his own food, but you don’t laugh at the teacher, but you can laugh at Alyoshkina! Where's the justice?

Communicating with Alyoshka, David does not always understand what drives his girlfriend. Once she invited him to visit her "real" house, but did not dare to ring the doorbell and left. Another incident occurred in the winter at the rink. Alyoshka skated beautifully on ice and decided to show it to her friend. In addition to her skates, she brought a couple of adults - to David. Growing up in sunny Armenia, the boy hesitantly kept on the ice, and suddenly thin ice cracked, his leg went knee-deep into the icy water. The boot fell off and drowned. Alyoshka, who risked falling through, lay on the ice, fearlessly put her hand into the hole and took out her boot. David was trembling from the cold, but hesitated to seem to his grandmother soaked in the eyes.

Alyoshka led him to her home. She showed him an album with photographs, which for some reason were cut in half, said that her mother’s skates (that’s why they were expensive) and showed poems dedicated to her mother. But just before giving the notebook, she took an oath from a friend that he would not tell anyone about them. Her poems were childish, inept, but very sad, they reflected Aleshka’s longing for her mother. She hid her poems, barely heard the click of a door lock. Father, who suddenly came home from work, saw the skates, took them from Sveta and lowered them into the garbage chute. Overwhelmed by anger, he did not notice the pain he had inflicted on his little daughter. The earth has gone from under the feet of what was scolded, destroyed the most precious, almost sacred to a still small, but already suffering person. Alyoshka is a rebel by nature, a brave girl who was independent and said she never cried, as if she had broken and wept bitterly.

Because of Alyosha, David breaks relations with the whole class. A couple of days after what happened in Alyoshka’s house, classmates, sitting in the dining room, figure out how to laugh at him and Alyoshka. One of them approaches David and invites him to a birthday, but for some reason does not say who exactly has the holiday. He only says that the meeting at six in the evening near the school. Alyoshka, who approached the table, seemed to foresee meanness and chased away this "mishandled Cossack." David, accustomed to living in peace with people, immediately quarrels with her. He does not like the harshness and rudeness of Alyosha, who does not want to be friends with anyone. After school, David meets with a classmate and finds out who has his birthday - from an excellent student Lesha, whom David hates. He rests and does not want to go to visit Lesha, but he forcibly drags him to his birthday.

Lesha gathered in the house the whole class. The guys ask why there is no Alyosha and ask David to dance or to sing something. He admits that he does not know how to do this. They laugh at him. And then the wounded David commits an offense that is difficult to forgive. Clutching at the only thing that can raise his fallen authority, he begins to read those verses that he saw in Alyoshka's notebook. Classmates are curious how David knows these verses. They say that they like and ask him who their author is. Inspired by success, David replies that these verses were written by Alyoshka. And, seeing fake admiration, boasts that Alyoshka has the entire notebook written in it.

The day after class, classmates begin to mock Sveta. One of the guys locks the door with a chair so that Alyoshka doesn’t come out, someone laughs at the fact that a “poet Alyoshkina” appeared in their class. A grinning girl goes to the blackboard and reads a poem. The class venomously ridicules inept lines. With tears in her eyes, Alyosha asks to stop this torture. The boy, secretly in love with her, pushes her classmate off the door, rips off a chair and lets out Alyoshka.

Alyoshka does not want to study anymore among people who have treated her so cruelly. She cannot forgive David for betrayal and does not let him into her house. Out of desperation, David runs onto thin ice, jumps on it and falls into icy water.

The class is having a serious conversation. The teacher admits her guilt that she did not notice the difficulties in the classroom in time and urges the children to be human. We all used to be strangers, and if we are now familiar and friends, then the new guys should be given time to get comfortable, even if they don’t even fit into the team.

The film ends with the reconciliation of Kaloshyan and Aleshkina with the class.

• Hrachya Mkhitaryan - David Kaloshyan
• Nadezhda Shulzhenko - Sveta Alyoshkina
• Armen Dzhigarkhanyan - Gevork Arshakovich Kaloshyan, dad of David
• Nina Ter-Osipyan - Margot, David's grandmother
• Violetta Gevorgyan - Asmik, mother of David
• Goarina Khachikyan - Juliet, sister of David
• Boris Birman - Lenya
• Marina Bugakova - Olya
• Sasha Grokhovsky - Bunnies
• Natalya Chetverikova - Nina Ivanovna, class teacher
• Nikolai Volkov - Boris Vasilievich, physics teacher
• Valery Degtyar - Juliet's fiance
• Efim Kamenetsky - Konstantin Nikolaevich, father of "Alyoshka"
• Marina Tregubovich - Marina
• Oleg Khromenkov - “Barmaley”
• Lyubov Malinovskaya - Alevtina
• Marina Yurasova is a neighbor
• Vladimir Shevelkov - episode
• Sergey Pigel - episode
• Grisha Goller - episode
• Oleg Ilyin - episode

• Screenplay: Eduard Akopov
• Director: Adolf Bergunker
• Operator: Oleg Kukhovarenko
• Composer: Vladislav Kladnitsky
• Artist: Igor Vuskovich

• "Grandmother's grandson" on the site "Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema"