Old Fashioned Comedy

1978

Based on the play of the same name by A. Arbuzov, staged by the Mayakovsky Moscow Academic Theatre. A touching and eccentric circus cashier constantly disrupts the sanatorium's orderly routine. The head doctor is tired of warning her, but gradually he discovers that he feels something other than irritation toward the unruly patient. Thus begins the story of the relationship between two lonely, middle-aged people...