The read
It runs long at 2h 34m.
Synopsis
In a small Russian town, there is a Research Institute for magic. One of the witches, Alyona Sanina, is going to marry a guy named Ivan Puhov (not a magician). A jealous Apollon Sataneev tells her boss Kira Shemahandskaya that Sanina is going to marry not Ivan Puhov, but Ivan Kivrin, whom Shemahandskaya is going to marry herself. Enraged, Shemahandskaya, who is a powerful witch, orders Sanina to forget about her Ivan and marry Sataneev instead. And this will be final unless Alyona kisses Puhov before midnight on New Year. Alyona's friends call Puhov to the rescue.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
63 audience votes
Key crew
- Boris StrugatskiyWriter
- Konstantin BrombergDirector
- Arkadiy StrugatskiyWriter
- Evgeniy KrylatovOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Aleksandr AbdulovIvan Sergeevich Puhov
- Aleksandra YakovlevaAlyona Igorevna Sanina
- Valentin GaftApollon Mitrofanovich Sataneev
- Yekaterina VasilyevaKira Anatolyevna Shemahanskaya
- Valeriy ZolotukhinIvan Kivrin
- Roman FilippovModest Kamneyedov
- Emmanuil VitorganKovrov
- Mikhail SvetinFoma Ostapych Bryl
- Semyon FaradaGuest from South
- Irina GrishinaCast
- Irina BelgerКатенька
- Anna AshimovaCast