106 minutos
Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit...
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Ilya Semyonovich Melnikov - History Teacher
Nina Menshikova
Svetlana Mikhailovna - Russian Language and Literature Teacher
Irina Pechernikova
Natalya Sergeevna Gorelova - English Language Teacher
Olga Ostroumova
Rita Cherkasova
Igor Starygin
Kostya Batishchev
Yuriy Chernov
Syromyatnikov
Lyubov Sokolova
Levikova
Dalvin Shcherbakov
Borya Rudnitskiy
Nina Emelyanova
Taisiya Nikolayevna (as N. Yemelyanova)
Mikhail Zimin
Nikolai Borisovich
Olga Zhiznyeva
Polina Andreevna
Lyudmila Arkharova
Nadya Ogarysheva
Valeri Zubarev
Genka Shestopal
German Kachin
Igor Stepanovich
Klavdiya Lepanova
Klavdiya Sergeevna
Sofya Garrel
Raisa Pavlovna
Nina Emelyanova
Taisiya Nikolaevna
Valentina Telegina
school nanny
Nina Grebeshkova
Allochka
Sofiya Pilyavskaya
Teacher
Yakov Lenc
Elderly Geography Teacher
Viktor Markin
Teacher
Nadir Malishevsky
TV presenter
