''Two Days of Miracles'' (russian: Два дня чудес, Dva dnya dlya chudes) is a 1970 Soviet
fantasy
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comedy film
A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...
directed by Lev Mirsky based on the play ''Simply Awful!'' by Yuri Sotnik.
Plot
Young undereducated fairies Daisy and Violet from the Institute of Good Wizards after an unsuccessful exam go among people to get real-life practice and perform a "good miracle". After materializing on a boat, the fairies overhear the conversation of the head of the therapeutic department of the polyclinic Vadim Leonidovich, his wife and their son, who are returning from vacation. The fairies offer to change their places, and turn the mother into a girl. Vadim Leonidovich does not take the offer seriously and jokingly agrees. The fairies, rejoicing at the opportunity to perform a "good miracle", cast a spell and turn the father into a son, the son into father, and mother ... into a cactus.
At the same time, two other female sorceresses from the Institute of minor mischief also appear among people to commit more trouble.
Since the next day is the
1st of September, the son needs to go to school, and the father to work in the clinic, they try to teach and prepare each other for unexpectedly new habits and responsibilities in their childhood and adulthood.
And the fairies Daisy and Violet somehow manage to correct their mistake - they turn the mother-cactus into a mother-girl.
Cast
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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 ...
- Vadim Murashev
*Borya Mayhrovsky - Grisha Murashev
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Mikhail Kozakov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov (in Russian: Михаил Михайлович Козаков) (14 October 1934, Leningrad – 22 April 2011, Ramat Gan) was a Soviet, Russian and Israeli film and theatre director and actor.
Biography Early life
Mik ...
- professor-examiner of the Institute of Good Wizards
*Elena Mozgovaya - fairy Violet
*Natalia Markina - fairy Daisy
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Erast Garin
Erast Pavlovich Garin (russian: Эра́ст Па́влович Га́рин; – 4 September 1980) was a Soviet and Russian actor, director and screenwriter. He was, together with Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson, one of the leading comic ...
- professor-examiner at the Koshchei Immortal
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Olga Aroseva
Olga Aleksandrovna Aroseva (russian: О́льга Алекса́ндровна Аро́сева; 21 December 1925 – 13 October 2013) was a Soviet and Russian actress whose career spanned more than 65 years. Aroseva was better known for her work ...
- witch student Alfa Ivanovna Kokoshkina
*Tamara Chernova - witch student Marfa Petrovna
*Lidia Belinskaya (Lydia Petrovna, Grisha's mother)
*Yuri Kritenko - Alexander Yefimovich Tukachev, head physician
*Alexander Nazarov - Rostislav Mikhailovich, a psychiatrist
*Lyudmila Stoyanova - young specialist Julia Ivanovna
*Elena Malikova - Lida, mother-girl
*Mariika Lokshina - Lilya
*Slava Glushkov - Petya
*Yasha Ovchukov - Artyom
See also
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Simply Awful!
''Simply Awful!'' (russian: Просто ужас!, Prosto uzhas!) is a 1982 Soviet fantasy comedy film directed by Aleksandr Polynnikov based on the play of the same name by Yuri Sotnik. It is the second adaptation of the play, the first one was ' ...
, 1982 adaptation of the same play.
References
External links
Soviet fantasy comedy films
1970 comedy films
1970 films
Russian children's fantasy films
Gorky Film Studio films
1970s children's fantasy films
Films about wish fulfillment
1970s fantasy comedy films
Soviet children's films
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