Fathers (1989)

7.5/10 134 min Drama

Overview

Second half of the 1960s. Novikov, an employee of the apparatus, is a charming and successful functionary, married to the daughter of a former party leader. His life is a success — he has a status, a family, two children, as well as a young mistress — student Tanya, for whom he will never divorce... During the conflict at a youth construction site in Siberia, which he must repay, Novikov shows himself as an experienced dodger and a provocateur. Tanya's father, a war veteran and an honest worker, Ivan Dronov considers himself entitled to punish this scoundrel...

Cast

Boris Shcherbakov

Novikov

Oleg Borisov

Dronov

Galina Bulgakova

Tanya

Irina Rozanova

Larisa

Yevgeny Matveyev

father-in-law

Eduard Bocharov

Kozlov

Sergey Garmash

taxi driver

Aleksandr Feklistov

Anatoliy

Natalya Popova

Dronova

Nikolay Lavrov

chief

Marianna Strizhenova

mother-in-law

Vladimir Osipchuk

Safonov

Vladimir Vinogradov

Sergei

Vladimir Salnikov

Belov

Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya

Kozlov's mother-in-law

Galina Bulkina

Klavdiya

Igor Kosukhin

foreman

Boris Smorchkov

master on the factory

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