''The Most Charming and Attractive'' (russian: Самая обаятельная и привлекательная, Samaya obayatelnaya i privlekatelnaya) is a 1985
Soviet
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romantic comedy
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film directed by
Gerald Bezhanov
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Plot
Nadya Klyueva, a very nice employee of one
research institute
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cannot arrange her personal life. She is more than thirty years old, yet still unmarried. She occasionally meets her former schoolmate Susanna in a bus. After that Nadya's life begins to change. Susanna is a professional sociologist and gives Nadya practical advice on how to change her behavior and clothing to get married successfully. The object of Nadya's courtship is her colleague Volodya, frivolous "
Don Juan
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". But soon Nadya realizes that her happiness and love that she sought through a variety of tricks and efforts is just an illusion.
Cast
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Irina Muravyova as ''Nadya Klyueva, SRI employee''
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Tatyana Vasileva
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as ''Susanna, Nadya's experienced friend''
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as ''Volodya Smirnov, Nadya's colleague, SRI employee''
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Leonid Kuravlyov
Leonid Vyacheslavovich Kuravlyov (russian: Леонид Вячеславович Куравлёв; 8 October 1936 – 30 January 2022) was a Soviet and Russian film actor. He became a People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1976.
Early life
Kuravlyov w ...
as ''Pasha Diatlov, Nadya's colleague, SRI employee''
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Mikhail Kokshenov
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Biography
Mikhail Kokshenov w ...
as ''Lyoha Priakhin, Nadya's colleague, SRI employee''
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Lyudmila Ivanova
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as ''Claudia Matveevna Stepankova, Nadya's colleague, SRI employee''
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Larisa Udovichenko
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Lev Perfilov as ''Pyotr Vasilievich, Nadya's chief''
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Older brother — People's Artist of Russia Valery ...
as ''Gena Sysoev, Nadya's friend and colleague, engineer''
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Alexander Schirvindt as ''Arkady, Susanna's husband''
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Lyubov Sokolova as ''Nadya's mother''
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Vera Sotnikova
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as ''Sveta, Volodya Smirnov's girlfriend''
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Viktor Filippov
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as ''policeman''
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Igor Yasulovich
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Biography
Yasulovich was born in the village of Reinsfe ...
as ''huckster''
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as ''fellow traveler on train''
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Viktor Ilichyov
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as ''Dima, fellow traveler's husband''
References
External links
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1985 romantic comedy films
1985 films
Soviet romantic comedy films
Mosfilm films
Films shot in Moscow
Films set in the Soviet Union
Russian romantic comedy films
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