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Office Romance
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Title: Office Romance

Release Date: 26 Oct 1977

Runtime: 2h 39m

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Director: Mosfilm

Production Companies: Mosfilm

Overview: Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..

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Average Vote: 8 (229 votes)

Cast

  • Людмила Прокофьевна Калугина: Alisa Freyndlikh
  • Анатолий Ефремович Новосельцев: Andrey Myagkov
  • Ольга Петровна Рыжова: Svetlana Nemolyaeva
  • секретарша Верочка: Liya Akhedzhakova
  • Юрий Григорьевич Самохвалов: Oleg Basilashvili
  • Шура: Lyudmila Ivanova
  • Петр Иванович Бубликов: Pyotr Shcherbakov
  • завхоз: Georgi Burkov
  • член инвентаризационной комиссии: Mariya Vinogradova
  • жена Самохвалова: Nelli Pshyonnaya
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