Dear Yelena Sergeyevna

Dear Yelena Sergeyevna (Russian: Дорогая Елена Сергеевна, romanized: Dorogaya Yelena Sergeyevna) is a 1988 Soviet crime thriller film directed by Eldar Ryazanov. The film is based on an eponymous play by Lyudmila Razumovskaya.

Dear Yelena Sergeyevna
Directed by	Eldar Ryazanov
Written by	Eldar Ryazanov Lyudmila Razumovskaya
Produced by	Leonid Vereshchagin
Starring	Marina Neyolova Natalia Shchukina Dmitry Maryanov
Cinematography	Vadim Alisov
Music by	Gennadi Aleksandrov
Production company	Mosfilm[1]
Release date	12 April 1988 (1988-04-12)[2]
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Plot

…After the final exams at a regular school, three schoolchildren understand that they have not passed the exams, and it can break their future career. Fraudulently the teenagers enter the house of their teacher Yelena Sergeevna and demand the key to the safe in which the examination papers are stored. At first, schoolchildren try to persuade Yelena Sergeevna, then they come to bribery and blackmail. But the high-minded teacher does not agree to the deal with her conscience and tries to explain to her schoolchildren all the meanness and baseness of their actions ...

Cast

• Marina Neyolova as Yelena Sergeevna, teacher
• Natalia Shchukina as Lyalya, Yelena Sergeevna's schoolgirl
• Dmitry Maryanov as Pasha, Yelena Sergeevna's schoolboy (voice by Andrey Tashkov)
• Fedor Dunaevsky as Vityok, Yelena Sergeevna's schoolboy
• Andrey Tikhomirnov as Volodya, Yelena Sergeevna's schoolboy (voice by Oleg Menshikov)
• Eldar Ryazanov as Yelena Sergeevna's neighbour

References

1. «Дорогая Елена Сергеевна» на сайте «Мосфильма»
2. Ольга Афанасьева. (2015). Эльдар Рязанов. Ирония судьбы, или…. Алгоритм. ISBN 978-5-906789-26-6.

External links

• Dorogaya Yelena Sergeyevna at IMDb