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Wikipedia article




'Big School-Break' (or 'Big Break' translit. 'Bolshaya Peremena', ) is a Soviet 1972 TV miniseries in 4 episodes. I was known in the US as 'The Long Recess', and it is loosely based on Georgy Sadovnikov's novel 'Walk towards people' ( ).

Plot summary



Nestor Petrovich Severov, a student preparing to start his PhD in Russian history, has his ego bruised by his girl-friend, who beats him on their entrance exam. He starts working at a night school, having had his spot at a graduate program taken away by the young woman. He soon finds out that teaching adults can be very hard, especially when they aren't willing to learn.

Cast



* Mikhail Kononov as 'Nestor Petrovich Severov, the history teacher'

* Yevgeny Leonov as 'Stepan Lednyov'

* Rolan Bykov as 'Alexander Petrykin'

* Aleksandr Zbruyev as 'Grigory Ganzha'

* Svetlana Kryuchkova as 'Nelli'

* Yanis Yakobson as 'Nelli neighbor's party'

* Yuriy Kuzmenkov as 'Fedoskin'

* Natalya Bogunova as 'Svetlana Afanasyevna'

* Natalya Gvozdikova as 'Polina'

* Savely Kramarov as 'Timokhin'

* Viktor Proskurin as 'Gena Lyapishev'

* Valery Nosik as 'Otto Fukin'

* Nina Maslova as 'Korovyanskaya'

* Iren Azer as 'Lyus'ka'

* Valeri Khlevinsky as 'Avdotyin'

* Lyudmila Kasatkina as 'The School Director'

* Mikhail Yanshin as 'Professor Volosyuk'

* Valentina Sperantova as 'The School Janitor'

* Lev Durov as 'Militiaman'

* Lyusyena Ovchinnikova as 'Valya, Petrykin's bride'

* Lev Dubov as Engineer

* Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya, Valentina Talyzina, Nina Zhilina, Lyudmila Antsiferova, Valentina Kuznetsova as 'The School Teachers'

* Vladimir Basov as photographer at the wedding Petrykin's

*Elya Baskin as pupil

* Nikolai Grabbe as Tarasov

* Ivan Ryzhov as Police Major, head of the department

* Valentina Ananina (episode)

* Mikhail Remizov (episode)

* Vladimir Zemlyanikin as friend Petrykin's

* Gotlib Roninson as Brigadier

* Yelena Koreneva as girl in library

* Valentina Titova as wedding guests

* Pyotr Shcherbakov as guest


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