Flights in Dreams and in Reality
Oct 04 1982
•2h 32m
•Drama
On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...
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Oleg Yankovskiy
Sergei Makarov
Oleg Menshikov
Alisa's Friend
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Larisa Yurevna
Oleg Tabakov
Nikolai Pavlovich
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