THE BLOND AROUND THE CORNER (BLONDINKA ZA UGLOM)

1984, 83 min., color, wide screen

Tragicomedy

Director: Vladimir Bortko, screenplay: Alexander Chervinsky, camera: Ivan Bagayev, Valentin Komarov, production designer: Vladimir Svetozarov, misic: Isaac Shwarz, sound: Nataliya Avanesova

Cast: Tatyana Dogileva, Andrei Mironov, Mark Prudkin, Yevgeniya Khanayeva, Yelena Solovey, Anatoly Slivnikov, Baadur Tsuladze, Pavel Kadochnikov, Anatoly Ravikovich, Alexei Zharkov, Sergei Bekhterev

Such were the stagnation times in Russia when an astrophysicist had to work in a supermarket. He falls in love with his co-worker—a girl with her feet firm on the ground. Can the stars in his mind and the earthly goals in hers lead them to any compatible relationship? And the background is the surreal of late Soviet lifestyle.