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Audiences rate it 30 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery?
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes43%
Audiences rate it 30 points higher than critics do.
34 audience votes
Key crew
- Yuri MaminDirector
- Aleksei ZalivalovOriginal Music Composer
- Yuri MaminScreenplay
- Arkadiy TigayScreenplay
- Vladimir VardunasScreenplay
- Vyacheslav LeykinScreenplay
Cast
- Agnès SoralNicole
- Sergey DreydenNikolay Chizhov
- Viktor MikhaylovGorokhov
- Nina UsatovaVera
- Kira Krejlis-PetrovaMother-in-law Gorokhov
- Natalya Ipatovadaughter Gorokhov
- Viktor GogolevIvan Kouzmitch
- Tamara TimofeevaMariya Olegovna
- Andrey UrgantGulyaev
- Jean RupertMonsieur Prevost
- Malka RibowskaLady in black
- Bernard Cassus-SoulanisConstruction company agent
Themes
paris, francecatmusic teacherteacher