Autumn Marathon (1979)

Original title

Осенний марафон

Directed by

Georgiy Daneliya

Genre

comedy drama, romance film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 69 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged translator in Leningrad juggles his wife, his mistress, his demanding neighbors and his coworkers. He cannot say no to anyone, which makes his life a quiet mess.

melancholicwrytenderwistfulreflectiveunderstatedgentle comedyslightly bleak

What happens

Autumn Marathon (Russian: Осенний марафон, romanized: Osenniy marafon) is a 1979 Soviet romantic comedy-drama, a winner of the 1979 Venice Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival and 1980 Berlin Film Festival awards in the best director and best actor categories. It was also selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 52nd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. It starred Oleg Basilashvili as Andrei Buzykin, a married English-to-Russian translator in Leningrad who is going through a mid-life crisis and struggling to stand up for himself in his tangled relationships with his wife, mistress, neighbors, and co-workers. The cast included such notable Soviet performers as Yevgeny Leonov, Natalya Gundareva, Marina Neyolova, Borislav Brondukov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, and Galina Volchek. It was directed by Georgiy Daneliya. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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