''Courier'' (russian: Курьер, Kuryer), also known as ''Messenger Boy'' is a 1986 Soviet
comedy-drama
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film directed by
Karen Shakhnazarov
Karen Georgievich Shakhnazarov, PAR (russian: Каре́н Гео́ргиевич Шахназа́ров; born 8 July 1952) is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. He became the Director General of Mosfilm studios in 1998.
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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
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Cast
* – Ivan, courier
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Anastasiya Nemolyaeva
Anastasiya Nikolaevna Nemolyaevahttp://www.kinopoisk.ru/ /name/273013/ (russian: Анастасия Николаевна Немоляева; was born 30 June 1969) is Soviet and Russian film and theater actress, designer.
Biography
Anastasiya Nem ...
– Katya
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Oleg Basilashvili
Oleg Valerianovich Basilashvili (russian: Оле́г Валериа́нович Басилашви́ли; ka, ოლეგ ბასილაშვილი, ; born 26 September 1934) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist ...
– Semyon Petrovich, Katya's father
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Inna Churikova
Inna Mikhailovna Churikova (russian: Инна Михайловна Чурикова; born 5 October 1943) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress.
Biography
Churikova was born in Belebey, Bashkir ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. In t ...
– Lydia Alekseevna, Ivan's mother
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Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyorny
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Pankratov-Chyorny (russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Панкра́тов-Чёрный; born 28 June 1949) is a Russian actor and film director. He appeared in more than seventy films since 1978.
He was aw ...
Vladimir Menshov
Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov (russian: Влади́мир Валенти́нович Меньшо́в; 17 September 1939 – 5 July 2021)''Courier'' online at official
Mosfilm
Mosfilm (russian: Мосфильм, ''Mosfil’m'' ) is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output incl ...