Offered for Singles (russian: Одиноким предоставляется общежитие, Odinokim predostavlyaetsya obshchezhitiye) is a 1984
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
directed by
Samson Samsonov
Samson Iosifovich Samsonov (russian: Самсо́н Ио́сифович Самсо́нов; 23 February 1921 – 31 August 2002) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the ...
and written by
Arkady Inin.
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Plot
Vera Golubeva, a textile mill worker, lives in a dormitory for women. In her spare time she plays matchmaker for the other women. Although she does this informally and for free, Vera goes at it professionally: studying the personals
A personal advertisement, sometimes called a contact ad, is a form of classified advertising in which a person seeks to find another person for friendship, romance, marriage, or sexual activity. In British English, it is commonly known as an adve ...
in the newspapers, she sends marriage proposals throughout the Soviet Union, and carefully selects suitors. But Vera herself is lonely: walking with brides in their weddings, she has already forgotten to dream about her own family happiness.
One day, in the strictly female dormitory appears a new Commandant, Viktor Petrovich - a picturesque former sailor. At some point in the past a woman left him, and from that point on he has regarded women with the utmost suspicion. At first he fights against the way things are done in the dormitory and tries to close Vera's marriage bureau. But eventually, Viktor begins to understand that Vera is the woman he has been looking for all his life.
Cast
* Natalya Gundareva
Natalya Georgyevna Gundareva (russian: Наталья Георгиевна Гундарева, August 28, 1948 — May 15, 2005) was a Soviet Russian film and theatre actress, one of the leading figures at the Mayakovsky Theatre where she worked ...
as Vera Nikolayevna Golubeva
* Aleksandr Mikhailov as Victor Petrovich Frolov, commander
* Tamara Syomina
Tamara Petrovna Syomina (russian: Тамара Петровна Сёмина; born 25 October 1938) is a Soviet/Russian film actress. She appeared in more than forty films since 1959. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1978).
Biography
Tamara Petrov ...
as Larisa Evgenievna, educator
* Yelena Drapeko
Yelena Grigoryevna Drapeko (russian: Еле́на Григо́рьевна Драпе́ко; born 29 October 1948) is a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actress. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1972. She is a ...
as Nina
* Frunzik Mkrtchyan
Mher Musheghi Mkrtchyan ( hy, Մհեր Մուշեղի Մկրտչյան; 4 July 1930 – 29 December 1993), better known by the name Frunzik ( hy, Ֆրունզիկ; russian: Фрунзик), was an Armenian stage and film actor. Mkrtchyan is widel ...
as Vartan
* Viktor Pavlov
Viktor Pavlovich Pavlov (russian: Ви́ктор Па́влович Па́влов; October 5, 1940 – August 24, 2006) was a Russian stage and film actor.
Pavlov worked in some of the most popular theatres of Moscow: 1963–1965 - Sovremenn ...
as Ilya Belenky
* Elena Mayorova
Elena Vladimirovna Mayorova (russian: Еле́на Влади́мировна Майо́рова; 30 May 1958 – 23 August 1997) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1989).Русский драматиче ...
as Ira Sanyko
Awards
*The film won prizes CCF in Kyiv
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(1984) and the International Film Festival in Chamrousse
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(1985)
*Natalya Gundareva - best actress in 1984 in a poll of the magazine ''Soviet Screen
''Soviet Screen'' (russian: link=no, Советский Экран, Sovetsky Ekran) was an illustrated magazine published in the USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental c ...
'' [«Ну и что?! Я такая, какая есть!». Памяти Натальи Гундаревой / АиФ / Валентина Оберемко]
References
External links
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{{Samson Samsonov
Soviet romantic comedy films
1984 romantic comedy films
1984 films
Films directed by Samson Samsonov
Mosfilm films
Russian romantic comedy films
Soviet teen films