Man in a Shell (1939)

Plot Summary

The Greek teacher Belikov, who works in a rural gymnasium, loved to keep things in cases, was afraid of everything and lived himself, as if in a case, on the principle: “no matter what happens”. By this principle, he literally "terrorized" the gymnasium and the villagers. Hope appeared when Varenka arrived in the village - “not a girl, but marmalade”, although she was already aged, and “did not mind being married, even if only to a teacher of the Greek language”.

Full Cast & Characters

Olga Androvskaya

Варвара Александровна Коваленко (Варенька)

Mikhail Zharov

Михаил Александрович Коваленко (учитель истории и географии)

Faina Ranevskaya

жена инспектора

Aleksei Gribov

Афанасий (слуга Беликова)

Vladimir Gardin

Михаил Васильевич (директор гимназии)

Aleksandr Larikov

Невыразимов (учитель)

Aleksandra Matveeva

продавщица цветов

Osip Abdulov

Тарантулов, учитель

Konstantin Adashevsky

Priest

Aleksey Bondi

учитель, француз (в титрах С. Бонди)

Nikolai Khmelyov

Беликов (учитель греческого языка)

Director & Crew

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