Office Romance (1977)

Original title

Служебный роман

Directed by

Eldar Ryazanov

Genre

drama film, romantic comedy

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

2h 31m

Rating

7.8 of 10 from 267 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A stern female bureau chief and a meek male employee start off disliking each other but gradually fall in love. The movie shows their everyday office life and changing relationship in 1970s Moscow.

lightheartedwarmquirkysweetplayfulnostalgicromanticamusing

What happens

Office Romance (Russian: Служебный роман, romanized: Sluzhebny roman) is a 1977 Soviet comedy film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film's plot is based on the stageplay Co-workers (Сослуживцы) written by Ryazanov and Emil Braginsky, and tells the story of Ludmila Kalugina, head of a statistical bureau, and her subordinate, economist Anatoly Novoseltsev, who come from mutual aversion to love. Filmed at Mosfilm in 1976 and released in 1977, Office Romance was a box office success, the leader of Soviet film distribution in 1978 and still enjoyed wide popularity in the former Soviet republics. Both romantic drama and screwball comedy, the film is noted for its scenes of Moscow in the late 1970s, and for its comical depiction of the everyday life and customs of Soviet society during the Era of Stagnation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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