We'll Live Till Monday (1968)

  • NR
  • 07/07/1968 (US)
  • Romance, Drama
  • 1h 46m

Overview

Ilya Semenovich Melnikov is a history teacher in an ordinary Soviet high school. He is a very good teacher and his students and colleagues treat him with a great deal of respect. However, Melnikov faces a lot of difficulties in his work. In particular, everybody at school is spreading rumors about Natalya Sergeyevna, an Enlish language teacher and a former student of Melnikov, being in love with him. Exhausted by his mental suffering, Melnikov asks the principal to allow him to quit his job. At the end of the week that is to become the last week of Melnikov's teaching career the students of his class write an in-class essay on how they understand happiness. Svetlana Mikhailovna, their Russian teacher, is shocked by what one of the students wrote in her essay, nevertheless, she allows her to read it in front of the class. The other students express support of their classmate. Melnikov gets involved in the conflict, after which he reconsiders his decision to quit...

Stanislav Rostotsky

Director

Georgi Polonsky

Writer

Cast

Vyacheslav Tikhonov's headshot

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Ilya Semyonovich Melnikov - History Teacher
Nina Menshikova's headshot

Nina Menshikova

Svetlana Mikhailovna - Russian Language and Literature Teacher
Irina Pechernikova's headshot

Irina Pechernikova

Natalya Sergeevna Gorelova - English Language Teacher
Olga Ostroumova's headshot

Olga Ostroumova

Rita Cherkasova
Igor Starygin's headshot

Igor Starygin

Kostya Batishchev
Yuriy Chernov's headshot

Yuriy Chernov

Syromyatnikov
Lyubov Sokolova's headshot

Lyubov Sokolova

Levikova
Dalvin Shcherbakov's headshot

Dalvin Shcherbakov

Borya Rudnitskiy

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