Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He meets Vera, a waitress, after he refuses to pay her for the disgusting food he doesn't even touch and misses his train due to police investigation of the incident. His passport is then accidentally taken away from him by Andrei, Vera's fiancé, and his money is stolen as he waits for the next train to Griboedov. Vera learns that Platon is about to get sentenced and sent to prison in the Far East for a car accident he isn't guilty for. During the few days that Platon has to spend in Zastupinsk he and Vera develop feelings for each other...
Cast
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Vera Nefyodova
Oleg Basilashvili
Platon Ryabinin
Nikita Mikhalkov
Andrey
Nonna Mordyukova
uncle Misha
Mikhail Kononov
Nikolasha
Anastasia Voznesenskaya
Yulya
Tatyana Dogileva
Marisha
Olga Volkova
Violetta
Aleksandr Shirvindt
Shurik
Raisa Etush
Lyuda
Temur Yunusov
melon seller
Stanislav Sadalskiy
station thief
Zhanna Aleksandrova
waitress
Ibragim Bargi
Senior Lieutenant
Alla Budnitskaya
Platon's wife
Pyotr Kuznetsov
Unknown
Viktor Bortsov
restaurant drunk
Grigory Mikhaylov
market seller
Tatyana Ignatova
melon seller's companion
Nina Palladina
melon buyer
Irina Komarova
Unknown
Aleksandr Pyatkov
Lieutenant
Aleksandr Konyashin
bearded porter
Anatoliy Skoryakin
superintendent
Anna Frolovtseva
waitress
Eldar Ryazanov
railroad supervisor (uncredited)
Zinaida Bozhko
(uncredited)
Pyotr Olev
(uncredited)
Stanislav Mikhin
(uncredited)
Vladimir Myshkin
(uncredited)
Yuri Martynov
(uncredited)
Nikolay Malikov
(uncredited)
Aleksandr Gorbachev
(uncredited)
Evgeny Semyonov
(uncredited)
Vyatcheslav Maneshin
(uncredited)
Crew
Eldar Ryazanov
Director, Writer, Lyricist
Emil Braginskiy
Writer
Lyubov Gorina
Script Editor
Valeriya Belova
Editor
Vadim Alisov
Director of Photography
Leonid Chertok
First Assistant Director
Lazar Milkis
Executive Producer
Aleksandr Borisov
Production Design
Pyotr Kuznetsov
Camera Operator
Edit Priede
Costume Design
Irina Morozova
Makeup & Hair
Lyubov Kulikova
Makeup & Hair
Oleg Zilbershteyn
Sound Director
Andrey Petrov
Original Music Composer
Raisa Lukina
Music Editor
Nikolay Gridasov
Script Consultant
Sergei Skripka
Conductor
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