What a Smile You Got (1974)

Plot Summary

Sergey Savinov, a yesterday's schoolboy, who failed at his entry exams, is at the crossroads. Where to go to work? After working as a stand-by in a local recreation-and-entertainment park, he tries himself as a proof-reader in typography, a laboratory assistant in a plant and exhausts all his stock of photos for passes. To replenish it, he heads for a nearest photo saloon, and makes a conclusion, that his calling, which he long considered as a hobby, is photography. A work which brings so much happiness both to him and to other people.

Full Cast & Characters

Aleksei Mokrousov

Sergey

Aleksandr Shirvindt

Father

Eve Kivi

Mother

Yuri Puzyryov

Kirill

Mariya Mironova

Olga

Viktor Demertash

Petya, radio installer

Nataliya Bogunova

Solomina, the typesetter who sings

Valentina Sperantova

Baba Varya, Sergei's grandmother

Igor Filatov

Stasik, Seryozha's neighbor

Tatiana Doronina II

girl, in a trolleybus and a hairdresser

Director & Crew

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