Afonya

Afonya
Film poster
Directed by	Georgiy Daneliya
Produced by	Mosfilm
Written by	Alexander Borodyanski
Starring	Leonid Kuravlyov Yevgeny Leonov Yevgeniya Simonova
Music by	Mieczysław Weinberg
Cinematography	Sergei Vronsky
Studio	Mosfilm
Release date(s)	1975
Running time	92 min.
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Afonya (Russian: Афоня) is a Soviet film produced by Mosfilm and first released in 1975. The film became the Soviet box office leader of 1975 with a total of 62.2 million ticket sales. The film was shot on location in Yaroslavl, Russia.

Plot summary

Unlucky fitter plumber – Athanasius Borshchov (Athos) (Leonid Kuravlev) and His friend Fedulov (Borislav Brondukov) from morning to night is not busy work, and finding opportunities to drink. Afonya with client s extorts "kickback" – and lives.

In the pub, he met with a plasterer Kolya (Yevgeny Leonov), gets drunk, comes home. The next day he could not remember yesterday's drinking companion.

In the allocation of student interns from the vocational school master ZHEK Vostryakovo (Valentine Talyzina) do not attach the trainees to Mount Athos, fearing that he will not teach them well. Afonya still begging for his trainees. Having worked with him one day and seeing that its working methods, trainees reject it themselves.

The next day, plasterer Kohl out of the house throws wife, and he resides at Afonyia.

At dances Afonya meets Katya Snegireva (Yevgeniya Simonova), who knows about him from his brother, who played in one of Athanasius's volleyball team. But the special meaning new acquaintances Afonya not attached, because at that time fascinated by women older and already had noticed a lady. However, a romantic walk with her after the dance is over before it began – Athos watch for hooligans, one of which he managed to quarrel at a dance. Ties up the unequal fight, and not indifferent to the Mount Athos Katya is police.

At a regular desktop call Borshchov meets Helen (Nina Maslova) and falls in love at first sight. It fool me tenant, astronomer (Gotlib Roninson) by profession, was standing at the sink of the Finnish steel on the domestic iron and Finnish sink it sets in Helena home. In my dreams Athos seems the family idyll with his wife Elena and a bunch of kids.

Katya Snegireva all looking for new meetings with cheerful Athos, and leaves no attempts to attract his attention: "Athanasius! I am, someone called, I thought it was – you ... "

For persistent drunkenness, truancy, fighting Afonyia at a meeting of the team offered to dismiss. In addition, he put a condition to return the Finnish sink in its place. Afonya is a porcelain bowl with flowers to Helen to once again change, but Helen comes home with a noisy company, and behaves in a way that Mount Athos is clear: she has her own life among the fashionable and wealthy men, and he – just a plumber.

Afonya depressed, goes with Fedulov a restaurant, trying to escape, but had drunk alcohol does not help. Then he goes home to Katya Snegireva with a proposal to marry him and remain with her until morning.

Athanasius then decides to go to the village, to his aunt Frosya (Raisa Kurkina), which has brought him. In the village, he meets his childhood friend Concertina (Savely Kramarov) and with him the joy gives the city a telegram that dismissed from their jobs and rents an apartment. Only then he learns that Aunt Frosya died two years ago.

Depression increases Athos – he lost everything he had nowhere to go. Neighbour Uncle Yegor (Nikolai Grinko) gives Athos legacy – savings account in his name, the documents at home, left his aunt Frosya, and letters that she wrote on behalf of itself.

Athanasius goes to the post and tries to call Kate on Snegireva remarkable number 50-50-2, or as he says himself, "rug-rug or two." He answered that Kate left. Finally frustrated, he went to airport. He does not care where to go and what will happen to him. And at a time when Athanasius had already headed for the aircraft AN-2, it calls out the familiar girlish voice. With suitcase in hand is worth Katya: "Athanasius! I am, someone called, I thought it was – you ... "

Cast

• Leonid Kuravlev -Borshchov Athanasios N. (Athos)
• Yevgeniya Simonova -Katya Snegireva
• Yevgeny Leonov -Kolya
• Savely Kramarov -Razor
• Nina Maslova -Elena (Elena, Helene), Beauty of the 139th flats
• Borislav Brondukov -Fedulov
• Igor Bogolyubov -palFedulov
• Valentine Talyzina -Vostryakovo
• Vladimir Basov -Vladimir Belikov
• Nikolai Parfenov -Fomin, Boris Petrovich
• Gotlib Roninson -astronomer ("Archimedes")
• Raisa Kurkina -AuntFrosya
• Nina Ruslanova -Tamara
• Nikolai Grabbe -the chief of housing offices
• Nikolai Grinko -Uncle Yegor
• Gennady Yalovich -the director in the theater
• Radner Muratov -Murat Rakhimov
• Tamara Sovchi -cashierdining
• Yusup Daniyal – cashier dining companion
• Mikhail Vaskov -the policeman at the airport
• Peter Lyubeshkin -Uncle Pavel Shevchenko
• Renee Hobua – not featured in the film, although there is in the credits.
• Alexei Vanin -Ivan Orlov, Elena's husband
• Capitolina Ilienko -a participant in the meeting 'of housing the office'
• Alexander Potapov -employee of housing offices
• Michael Svetin -the driverVorontsov
• Tatiana Rasputin -a dance partner Afonyia
• Alexander Novikov -a bully with a beard

External links

• Afonya at the Internet Movie Database
• Afonya at AllRovi