We'll Live Till Monday (1968)
1h 46m
Running Time
July 2, 1968Release Date
We'll Live Till Monday (1968)
1h 46m
Running Time
July 2, 1968Release Date
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Plot.
Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit..
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Cast & Crew.

Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Ilya Semyonovich Melnikov - History Teacher

Irina Pechernikova
Natalya Sergeevna Gorelova - English Language Teacher

Nina Menshikova
Svetlana Mikhailovna - Russian Language and Literature Teacher

Mikhail Zimin
Nikolai Borisovich

Dalvin Shcherbakov
Borya Rudnitskiy

Nadir Malishevsky
TV presenter

Olga Zhiznyeva
Polina Andreevna

Lyudmila Arkharova
Nadya Ogarysheva

Valeri Zubarev
Genka Shestopal

Olga Ostroumova
Rita Cherkasova

Igor Starygin
Kostya Batishchev

Roza Grigoryeva
Sveta Demidova

Yuriy Chernov
Syromyatnikov

Lyubov Sokolova
Levikova

Arkadi Listarov
Vova Levikov

German Kachin
Igor Stepanovich

Klavdiya Lepanova
Klavdiya Sergeevna

Sofya Garrel
Raisa Pavlovna

Nina Emelyanova
Taisiya Nikolayevna (as N. Yemelyanova) / Taisiya Nikolaevna

Valentina Telegina
school nanny

Nina Grebeshkova
Allochka

Sofiya Pilyavskaya
Teacher

Yakov Lents
Elderly Geography Teacher

Stanislav Rostotsky
Director

Viktor Markin
Teacher

Vyacheslav Shumskiy
Director of Photography

Georgi Polonsky
Screenplay

Boris Dulenkov
Production Design

Kirill Molchanov
Original Music Composer

Aleksandr Izbutsky
Sound

Elza Rappoport
Costume Design

Zoya Kurdumova
First Assistant Director

Yury Postnikov
Camera Operator

Valentina Mironova
Editor

Artyom Anfinogenov
Script Editor

V. Boykova
Makeup Designer

Nikolay Gromov
Lighting Technician

Vladimir Nikitchenko
Special Effects

Konstantin Alekseyev
Special Effects

Svetlana Rimalis
Assistant Director

L. Bakhtiarova
Assistant Director

Aleksandr Kolosov
Assistant Director

D. Dmitrov
Assistant Camera

V. Chistyakov
Assistant Camera

Vladimir Prilensky
Sound Assistant

Vladislav Orlov
Assistant Production Design

I. Kashigina
Assistant Production Design

Grigoriy Rimalis
Production Manager
Media.

Details.
Release DateJuly 2, 1968
Original NameДоживем до понедельника
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 46m
Genres
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Wiki.
We'll Live Till Monday (Russian: Доживём до понедельника, translit. Dozhivyom do ponedelnika) is a 1968 Soviet romantic drama film directed by Stanislav Rostotsky. It was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Golden Prize. The film is about the life of an ordinary Moscow school with all its joys, problems and difficult choices in their lives of students and teachers.
History teacher Ilya Melnikov is familiar with both doubts and feelings of dissatisfaction. Though he is not always right, he fights, loves, and overcomes difficulties and doubts.
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