Osennii marafon / Autumn Marathon

100 min.
Copy 1 - In Russian.
Copy 2 - In Russian with English subtitles.

Videocassete release of a 1979 motion picture.
Director: Georgy Danelia
Writer: Alexander Volodin.
Camera: Sergei Vronsky.
Cast: Oleg Basilashvili, Natalia Gundareva, Marina Neyelova, Yevgeny Leonov.

Summary
"Splendid depiction of simmering middle age crisis ...  beautifully acted" (Los Angeles Times).

A gentle English translator and university professor living in Leningrad can no longer separate his personal life from his duties and, while he doesn't wish to harm anyone, his life becomes increasingly muddled by his loving wife, a demanding mistress, a wretched colleague, hounding students and a neighbor who rings his doorbell at dawn everyday during the jogging season.

The hours become shorter and the situation more desperate. His wife and then his mistress leave him. Deciding to change his life tradically, he becomes a new man only to have his wife and then his mistress return to him and, once again, he returns to, jogging with his neighbor. Life has made a full circle.
 

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