''Courier'' (russian: Курьер, Kuryer), also known as ''Messenger Boy'' is a 1986 Soviet
comedy-drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...
film directed by
Karen Shakhnazarov. It was entered into the
15th Moscow International Film Festival
The 15th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 6 to 17 July 1987. The Golden Prize was awarded to the Italian film ''Intervista'' directed by Federico Fellini.
Jury
* Robert De Niro (United States – President of the Jury)
* Tengiz ...
where it won a Special Prize.
Plot
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
The future is the time after the past and present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently ...
.
Cast
* – Ivan, courier
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Anastasiya Nemolyaeva – Katya
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Oleg Basilashvili – 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 ...
– Stepan Afanasyevich, editor-in-chief
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Svetlana Kryuchkova – Zinaida Pavlovna, secretary
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Vladimir Menshov – Oleg Nikolaevich, guest at Katya's birthday
References
External links
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* Watc
''Courier''online at official
Mosfilm site (with English subtitles)
1986 films
1986 comedy-drama films
Soviet comedy-drama films
Russian comedy-drama films
Films set in 1986
Films set in Moscow
Films set in the Soviet Union
Films shot in Moscow
Films shot in Moscow Oblast
1980s Russian-language films
Films directed by Karen Shakhnazarov
Films scored by Eduard Artemyev
1986 comedy films
1986 drama films
Soviet teen films
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