Courier (film)

This article is about the 1986 film. For other uses, see Courier (disambiguation).

Courier
Directed by	Karen Shakhnazarov
Starring	Fyodor Dunayevsky Anastasiya Nemolyayeva Oleg Basilashvili Inna Churikova
Cinematography	Nikolay Nemolyaev
Music by	Eduard Artemyev
Release dates	29 December 1986 (1986-12-29) (Moscow) May 1987 (1987-05) (Cannes)
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Courier (Template:Lang-ru), also known as Messenger Boy is a 1986 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Karen Shakhnazarov. It was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize.

Plot

Ivan Miroshnikov, а 17-year-old high school graduate, fails to enter university and gets fixed up with a job as a courier (delivery person) in a small publishing company. At the same time his parents get divorced. His ironic and careless attitude to his new miserable job covers the deep confusion of his soul. By pure accident he meets a girl named Katya, daughter of a famous professor. She is bored with her perfect family and ordinary prosperity, and they start dating. But her sudden interest gradually fades away because she doesn't have enough strength for deliberate protest and Ivan, truthfully, is not particularly interested in her. Soon she returns to her old environment, and he stays face-to-face with his near future.

Cast

• Fyodor Dunayevsky – Ivan, courier
• Anastasiya Nemolyaeva – Katya
• Oleg Basilashvili – Semyon Petrovich, Katya's father
• Inna Churikova – Lydia Alekseevna, Ivan's mother
• Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyorny – Stepan Afanasyevich, editor-in-chief
• Svetlana Kryuchkova – Zinaida Pavlovna, secretary
• Vladimir Menshov – Oleg Nikolaevich, guest at Katya's birthday

External links

• Courier at IMDb
• Watch Courier online at official Mosfilm site (with English subtitles)