We'll Live Till Monday (subtitles)
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- SKU: 61834
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- Label(s): К/с им. М. Горького
- Subtitles: English
- Languages: Russian
- Format: Black & White
- Soundformat: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Genre(s): Drama , Melodrama
- Year of release: 2018 (1968)
- Recording length: 101 min.
- Cast Ирина Печерникова, Михаил (дядя Миша) Чернов, Людмила Архарова, Надир Малишевский, Валерий Зубарев, Дальвин Щербаков, Ольга Жизнева, Нина Меньшикова, Михаил Зимин, Вячеслав Тихонов, Любовь Соколова, Игорь Старыгин, Ольга Остроумова
- Script Георгий Полонский
- Director Станислав Ростоцкий
- Music Кирилл Молчанов
- Camera Вячеслав Шумский
The film is about life of an ordinary Moscow school with all its joys, problems and difficult choices in their lives of students and teachers.
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.
The film was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Golden Prize.