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Marriage (1978) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1978 · 94 mins · Russian
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- Directed by
- Vitali Melnikov
- Starring
- Aleksey Petrenko, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Valentina Talyzina, Evgeni Leonov, Maya Bulgakova, Oleg Borisov
Based on Nikolai Gogol’s comedy, middle‑aged court adviser Podkolyosin is urged by his friend Kochkaryov to court the merchant’s daughter Agafya Tikhonovna. After a drawn‑out match‑making process that leads to a planned wedding, the indecisive groom panics at the last moment and escapes by leaping out of a window.
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